Compute Platform Engineer — Scale & Optimize Batch Jobs

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Compute team is seeking a software engineer who can turn millions of job records into accurate predictions and actionable improvements. You will develop, debug, and maintain data-driven features for a large-scale batch compute platform, spanning data analysis, modeling, production serving, and visibility into fleet performance.

You will own end-to-end features, implement changes across the stack down to node-level limits, validate in production, and collaborate

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field with 3+ years experience or MS with 1+ year or PhD.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, C++.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems and OS fundamentals.
• Experience instrumenting large-scale infrastructure and analyzing data.
• Comfort with production data and quantitative reasoning.
• Track record of owning a project from ambiguity to production.
• Strong communication and ability to work with customers.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end turning job behavior into decisions the platform acts on — from initial data analysis to production serving and measurement.
• Implement changes across the stack from platform services to node-level resource limits and configuration.
• Design and run validation in production: shadow mode, staged rollouts, explicit success metrics, and a rollback plan.
• Own the decisions your models make, diagnose misbehaviors, bound impact, and fix the system that trusted it.
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation.
• Engage directly with customers and partner teams to understand workloads, analyze cluster utilization and forecast demand.
• Bring quantitative analysis to open questions across the team • sizing, planning and prioritization decisions.
• Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science / related fields

MS in Computer Science

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Batch scheduling

Job description

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Compute team is seeking a software engineer who can turn millions of job records into accurate predictions and actionable improvements. You will develop, debug, and maintain data-driven features for a large-scale batch compute platform, spanning data analysis, modeling, production serving, and visibility into fleet performance.

You will own end-to-end features, implement changes across the stack down to node-level limits, validate in production, and collaborate