Software Engineer, London

Apple Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a software engineer focused on Go with experience in Swift, Python, or Bash to help build a scalable platform for internal engineers.

The role centers on maintaining a fleet of thousands of Apple devices, enabling remote development and automated testing in CI, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance. You will collaborate across teams to improve services, apply cloud best practices, and troubleshoot production issues in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Software development experience and a passion for software engineering.
• Experience designing or working with web services (HTTP+JSON, gRPC, etc.)
• An understanding of Networks and Networking Protocols
• Experience with, or interest in, Go
• Troubleshooting distributed systems and networking issues

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across functions to maintain a fleet of Apple devices numbering in the thousands
• Improve the functionality, observability, scalability, availability, usability, security, and performance of our services & infrastructure
• Adapt cloud technologies and industry best practices to solve challenges unique to Apple workloads
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Skills

Go

Swift

C

C++

Objective-C

Python

Java

Scala

Shell

Software development

Web services

Networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Envoy proxy

Ansible

WebDriver

Job description

Summary

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. We’re looking for a driven but adaptable developer, working primarily in Go, with some Swift, and dipping into other languages like Python or Bash as necessary, to help build a powerful platform that enables internal engineers to deliver incredible experiences to end-customers.Our team’s device cloud offers thousands of real and virtual Apple devices spanning hundreds of different hardware configurations, for use as remote development devices from desk and for automated testing in CI. Leveraging our device-centric API, engineers can use devices for purposes such as low-level hardware bring-up using custom firmware and kernels, validating ML model performance on released hardware, all the way to automating the UI with XCTest to validate Apple’s cloud services.Join us to solve problems spanning maintaining a highly available fleet of thousands of Apple devices, constructing complex overlay networks and even SoC or USB debugging, all with the quality expected of Apple - to make this platform just work, like magic, every time!

Description

Apple’s device cloud team has an immediate opening for a software engineer working primarily in Go who will:

• Collaborate across functions to maintain a fleet of Apple devices numbering in the thousands
• Improve the functionality, observability, scalability, availability, usability, security, and performance of our services & infrastructure
• Adapt cloud technologies and industry best practices to solve challenges unique to Apple workloads
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Minimum Qualifications

• In depth of experience in software development and a passion for software engineering
• Experience designing or working with web services (HTTP+JSON, gRPC, etc.)
• An understanding of Networks and Networking Protocols
• Experience with, or interest in, Go
• Troubleshooting distributed systems and networking issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Languages: Golang, Swift, C, C++, Objective-C, Python, Java, Scala, shell
• RPC libraries and protocols: protobuf, gRPC
• Cloud technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Envoy proxy
• Automation technologies: Ansible, Pkl, WebDriver
• Experience with IoT or other embedded development