Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services Engineering

Apple, Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Singapore seeks a versatile cloud software engineer to design and implement end-to-end cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments. You will own the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment, focusing on scalable, production-grade infrastructure.

The role emphasizes collaboration with customers and platform users, robust security, reliability, and performance, leveraging Kubernetes, IaC, and modern devops practices in a fast-paced ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, Go or Java with API design experience.
• Experience with major public clouds and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud-native development, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and crossplane.

Responsibilities

• In this hands-on, technically rigorous role, you will collaborate with cross‑functional customers to diagnose pain points, resolve complex issues, and deliver scalable cloud solutions.
• The candidate will deploy large-scale, distributed software across multi-cloud environments, owning the full lifecycle from design to deployment in production.
• Cultivate partnerships with platform users and stakeholders to align engineering work with business priorities.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

REST APIs

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Singapore, Singapore Software and Services

At Apple, great ideas don’t just take shape — they evolve into world-class products and transformative experiences at remarkable speed. Bring your passion, dedication, and technical curiosity to our team, and together we will redefine what’s possible in cloud services innovation.

Description

Our team builds end-to-end software solutions, APIs and core services that power critical workflows for countless internal and external customers across Apple’s ecosystem. We are seeking a versatile engineer with deep expertise in software development, system architecture and cutting-edge cloud technologies to drive impactful engineering outcomes. If you thrive on designing elegant, resilient solutions to intricate technical challenges, and are driven to build highly distributed, massively scalable cloud infrastructure, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• In this hands‑on, technically rigorous role, you will collaborate closely with cross functional customers to diagnose pain points, resolve complex technical issues, and deliver scalable, widely adopted cloud solutions.


• The ideal candidate brings a consistent track record of delivering large‑scale, distributed and complex software deployments across multi‑cloud environments, paired with deep technical acumen. You will own the full software development lifecycle—from end‑to‑end design and architecture to implementation, testing and deployment—showcasing expertise in building production‑grade cloud infrastructure and applications.


• Cultivating and sustaining strong partnerships with diverse platform users and business stakeholders is critical to driving business success and aligning engineering deliverables with organizational priorities. Join our team of elite, dedicated engineers as we innovate in a dynamic, groundbreaking cloud services space that continuously evolves to support Apple’s global scale and excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• Programming and API Expertise: Mastery of one or more programming languages (Python, Go or Java), with hands‑on experience implementing industry standard design patterns and developing RESTful/gRPC APIs.


• Cloud Infrastructure Experience: Proven track record working with one or more major public cloud platforms and underlying infrastructure.


• Cloud Native Proficiency: Familiarity with modern cloud native application development practices, including Kubernetes orchestration and end‑to‑end CI/CD pipeline implementation, crossplane framework.


• Core Protocol Knowledge: Solid understanding of foundational network and security protocols, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS and X509 certificate frameworks.


• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Skills: Proficiency in at least one IaC solution, such as Terraform, Pulumi.


• Collaboration and Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build, nurture and sustain cross‑functional partnerships with peer teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading architectural and detailed design efforts, with a focus on embedding security, high availability, fault tolerance and operational resiliency into core system design.


• Hands‑on experience operating, optimizing and scaling cloud infrastructure and production‑grade services on public cloud platforms, with the ability to deeply understand customer business needs and propose targeted, feasible technical solutions.


• Practical exposure to cloud networking technologies, design patterns and troubleshooting for distributed cloud environments.


• Proven expertise in application and service reliability engineering, including incident response, performance tuning and uptime optimization.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Apple provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and in accordance with local requirements. Apple is a drug‑free workplace.

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