OS & System Services Engineer - Data Center Cloud

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

Job summary

Apple is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the OS and System Services team in Seattle, WA. You will help optimize core OS infrastructure for high-performance data centers, enabling scalable workloads and energy-efficient hardware acceleration for ML and HPC tasks.

You will collaborate across Apple to adapt software for a novel compute platform, contribute to system daemons, and advance OS architecture with a hands-on, product-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated innovative and creative thinking capabilities.
• 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.

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/Computer Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the OS and System Services team in Seattle, WA. You will help optimize core OS infrastructure for high-performance data centers, enabling scalable workloads and energy-efficient hardware acceleration for ML and HPC tasks.

You will collaborate across Apple to adapt software for a novel compute platform, contribute to system daemons, and advance OS architecture with a hands-on, product-focused mindset.