Deployment Platform Engineer — Fast & Safe Cloud Delivery

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Deployment Platform team in San Diego. You will help design and build a high‑scale deployment platform enabling engineers to declaratively describe pipelines and roll out services across multi‑ and hybrid‑cloud environments.

You’ll work across the full lifecycle of deployments, collaborating with teams at Apple to deliver safe, scalable, and observable software delivery solutions, including APIs, automation, and AI‑powered tooling for continuous

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating production software.
• Strong programming skills in Java, delivering high‑quality, large‑scale services.
• Solid foundation in software architecture, system design, and problem solving.
• Hands‑on experience with distributed systems and cloud architecture (e.g., Cassandra, Kafka, Redis).
• Experience designing and building REST, gRPC, and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Solid understanding of micro‑services and cloud‑native application patterns.
• Ability to work across the full lifecycle of a service — API design, implementation, testing, and operations.
• Hands‑on experience with service deployment.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Deployment Platform Engineering Design, build, and own features of our deployment platform — including the deployment DSL, GitOps operator, and pipeline orchestration that power deployments in various environments.
• Progressive Delivery Build and improve progressive delivery capabilities such as phased rollouts, automated canary analysis, and metric gates that integrate with metric providers to keep deployments safe.
• Integrations & Reliability Integrate with the broader deployment ecosystem (e.g., Spinnaker) and build reliable, observable services on top of distributed systems technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, Redis.
• Developer Experience & Intelligence Deliver clean REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs, tooling, and capabilities — including AI‑powered continuous delivery intelligence — that help developers understand, troubleshoot, and continuously improve their deployments.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

API design

Cloud architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Spinnaker

Cassandra

Kafka

Redis

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Apple is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Deployment Platform team in San Diego. You will help design and build a high‑scale deployment platform enabling engineers to declaratively describe pipelines and roll out services across multi‑ and hybrid‑cloud environments.

You’ll work across the full lifecycle of deployments, collaborating with teams at Apple to deliver safe, scalable, and observable software delivery solutions, including APIs, automation, and AI‑powered tooling for continuous