Cloud OS Systems Engineer – Data Center & HPC

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock purchase plan

Restricted stock units

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Engineer to join the OS and System Services team. You will help build and maintain core system software, optimizing OS performance for large-scale data center workloads and enabling energy-efficient operations.

You will collaborate across Apple to advance hardware-accelerated ML/HPC workloads, design resilient daemons, and contribute to scalable OS infrastructure on Apple platforms.

Qualifications

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

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

C/C++

Obj-C

Swift

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Engineer to join the OS and System Services team. You will help build and maintain core system software, optimizing OS performance for large-scale data center workloads and enabling energy-efficient operations.

You will collaborate across Apple to advance hardware-accelerated ML/HPC workloads, design resilient daemons, and contribute to scalable OS infrastructure on Apple platforms.