Cloud OS Engineer - Data Center & AI Workloads

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

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Cloud OS System Software Team to build and integrate software that orchestrates workloads across Apple silicon servers in data centers.

In a highly collaborative role, you will optimize OS performance, scalability, and reliability, partner with cross‑functional teams to adapt software for a novel compute platform, and help lay the foundation of our future cloud architecture. Strong problem solving and debugging skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C, Swift.
• Strong knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.
• Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software.
• Creative, collaborative, and product-focused.
• Solid understanding of Linux or Apple OS system programming, including process management, IPC, signals, and daemon lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components for data center infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve performance, security, and resource efficiency across distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges.
• Contribute to the development of automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to improve system reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions related to OS-level services.
• Stay up to date with emerging OS technologies, virtualization, and containerization trends in data center environments.
• Design, implement, and maintain system daemons that manage hardware components and host processes
• Implement robust fault detection and recovery mechanisms for hardware and daemon failures.

Skills

Software engineering

C/C++

Obj-C

Swift

OS architecture

Linux/Apple OS programming

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Launchd / init systems

Swift (development)

Objective-C

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Cloud OS System Software Team to build and integrate software that orchestrates workloads across Apple silicon servers in data centers.

In a highly collaborative role, you will optimize OS performance, scalability, and reliability, partner with cross‑functional teams to adapt software for a novel compute platform, and help lay the foundation of our future cloud architecture. Strong problem solving and debugging skills are essential.