Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Platform & Automation

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock purchase plan

RSU awards

Education reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Software Engineer for Developer Productivity Engineering in Seattle to design and maintain scalable system software powering data centers. You will build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across high-performance, energy-efficient systems, collaborating with architecture, platform design, and software teams.

You’ll work on runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons, contribute to CI/CD, and help scale the next generation of cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development or distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong engineering skills in Pkl or a similar configuration language (note: likely typo in original); include design, testing, debugging, code review.
• Knowledge of operating system architecture and low-level system components.
• Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
• Track record of building, shipping, and operating production cloud services or infrastructure.
• Experience with Linux including systemd, cgroups, containers, socket IPC, and user-space processes using eBPF.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate secure software releases built on container technologies using OCI images and Linux namespaces.
• Build tooling to manage container lifecycles across release environments.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and design documents.
• Improve automation and CI/CD across the deployment pipeline.
• Debug and resolve production issues in distributed cloud systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop and integrate hardware, software, and services.

Skills

Cloud infra

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Nomad

Linux

eBPF

System design

Cgroups

OCI runc

Education

BS/MS Computer Science

Tools

Swift

Objective-C

OCI image specs

runc

Job description

Apple is seeking a Software Engineer for Developer Productivity Engineering in Seattle to design and maintain scalable system software powering data centers. You will build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across high-performance, energy-efficient systems, collaborating with architecture, platform design, and software teams.

You’ll work on runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons, contribute to CI/CD, and help scale the next generation of cloud infrastructure.