Senior Cloud Efficiency Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and optimize cloud-based services for efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness across workloads. This hands-on role focuses on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable software platforms.

You will analyze architectures, implement optimizations, and build tools to empower teams. A strong background in Java, JVM tuning, Fin‑Ops awareness, and collaboration across stakeholders is required to succeed at

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing, operating and optimizing services and infrastructure in third party cloud and private cloud data center environments.
• Ability to analyze, architect and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies, application stack layers (app, data, network, compute) and cloud services.
• Experience with analyzing and tuning applications for performance, efficiency and cost optimization.
• Experience with monitoring tools, including metrics collection, dashboard creation and log analytics.
• Proficient with Java with a deep understanding of JVM and optimization techniques for performance and efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management.
• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Analysing application architectures, workload utilization metrics and usage patterns to identify inefficiencies and areas of optimization.
• Identifying configurations or architectural changes to make improvements to various components of an application stack or infrastructure.
• Understanding operational, business risks, financial impact/benefits related to architecture or configuration changes, required for optimizations.
• Developing tools, capabilities to enable stakeholders, partners and development teams to analyze and take action, at scale.
• Collaborating and presenting solutions across engineering teams, leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Cloud architectures

Communication skills

Fin‑Ops knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and optimize cloud-based services for efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness across workloads. This hands-on role focuses on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable software platforms.

You will analyze architectures, implement optimizations, and build tools to empower teams. A strong background in Java, JVM tuning, Fin‑Ops awareness, and collaboration across stakeholders is required to succeed at