Platform Tools Engineer — Release Automation

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino seeks a Software Development Engineer for Developer Experience and Platform Tools to own platform qualification, test automation, and CI/CD pipelines across internal compute platforms.

You will work with SRE, hardware, OS and platform teams to qualify new server generations and ensure releases are production-ready; this builder role focuses on tooling, reliability, and scale.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to design, debug, and test complex software systems.
• 3+ years of experience in related software development (or comparable academic experience).
• Experience designing and building CI/CD systems, build/release pipelines, or developer tooling used by other engineering teams.
• Experience with test automation at scale: designing test frameworks, managing test infrastructure, and producing release signal engineers and other teams can trust.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop our platform qualification and test automation service end to end - architecture, code, API, and data model - growing it into the authoritative signal for release readiness across our compute fleet
• Own CI/CD and release engineering for systems that lay foundation of multiple compute platforms - design the pipelines, promotion gates, artifact and versioning strategy, and rollout mechanics that take a change from commit to production across many sites
• Drive software qualification for hardware and software releases, including new server generations and OS/firmware releases on both x86 and Apple Silicon. Define what "qualified" means, automate the evidence for it, and shorten the qualification cycle from weeks to days
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation
• Enjoy working on scalability, resilience, security, efficiency, and performance limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and, more importantly, how they fail
• Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to impact the success of the platform
• Participate in on-call rotation and partner with the SRE team to triage, investigate, and resolve production issues
• Partner with hardware/software engineering, OS, and platform teams across Apple to make qualification a first-class, automated part of every release

Skills

CI/CD tooling

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Debugging

Test automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino seeks a Software Development Engineer for Developer Experience and Platform Tools to own platform qualification, test automation, and CI/CD pipelines across internal compute platforms.

You will work with SRE, hardware, OS and platform teams to qualify new server generations and ensure releases are production-ready; this builder role focuses on tooling, reliability, and scale.