Software Engineer, London

Lex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's device cloud team is hiring a software engineer focused on Go, with work across Swift and Python as needed. You will help build a platform enabling internal engineers to test and validate devices and services at scale.

You will contribute to a fleet of thousands of Apple devices, focusing on reliability and performance of cloud-based tooling and APIs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable web services and APIs.
• Strong knowledge of Go; exposure to Swift or Python helpful.
• Familiarity with networking protocols and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams to maintain a large fleet of Apple devices.
• Improve service usability, reliability, and performance.
• Modernize infrastructure using cloud technologies and best practices.
• Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Networking

Troubleshooting

Swift

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

Protobuf

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

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