Senior Cloud Compute Engineer — Distributed Systems

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

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance internal cloud infrastructure for its ASE Compute team. You will develop features for a high-performance compute control plane that scales across sites and supports diverse workloads.

Responsibilities include design, code, documentation, and production readiness, with rotation on on-call issues and collaboration with cross-functional teams across Apple.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science / related fields and 6+ years of experience or MS with 4+ years of experience or PhD with 2+ years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, and maintain key features of a compute control plane service.
• Design and develop control plane components (scheduling, resource management, APIs, high-availability) for a large-scale multi-site cloud compute platform.
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation.
• Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.
• Participate in a rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution.
• Work with a wide range of software and hardware engineering teams across Apple to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform.
• Engage closely with partners and customers to drive clarity in Apple's compute needs.
• Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products

Skills

Distributed systems

Software development

High-availability

Performance analysis

Monitoring

Incident management

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science / related fields

MS in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ZooKeeper

etcd

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance internal cloud infrastructure for its ASE Compute team. You will develop features for a high-performance compute control plane that scales across sites and supports diverse workloads.

Responsibilities include design, code, documentation, and production readiness, with rotation on on-call issues and collaboration with cross-functional teams across Apple.