Software Engineer, Cloud Services ASE

Apple; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a senior software-focused Cloud Infrastructure engineer in Austin to shape scalable, highly available services across App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and related cloud platforms.

You’ll own end-to-end design, work with SREs and developers, and lead implementation of robust RESTful APIs with secure access. You’ll apply cutting-edge CI/CD tooling, containerization, and cloud security practices across AWS/GCP, ensuring reliability, performance, and guardrails for services

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• 1+ year of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• 1+ year of experience with CI/CD tools, containers, and Kubernetes.
• 1+ year of Golang programming and ability to pivot to other languages.
• Strong understanding of architectural design principles including security, HA, and resiliency.
• Experience applying cloud security best practices (AWS Organizations, SCPs, roots/members in multi-account setups).
• Proficiency in designing and building RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience operating infrastructure and services in cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of networking concepts and Linux/Unix internals.
• Familiarity with IAM and SSO authentication/authorization.

Responsibilities

• Foster innovation, drive collaboration, and deliver scalable solutions for customers.
• Design and implement complete products spanning the full software development lifecycle.
• Partner with developers, SREs, and customers to analyze challenges and craft robust solutions.
• Own end-to-end software design with emphasis on scalability and reliability.
• Create RESTful APIs and services for a diverse customer base.
• Automate deployment with modern CI/CD and container tooling to improve efficiency.
• Monitor application health and diagnose issues to bolster reliability.
• Implement strong authentication/authorization mechanisms and secure services.
• Apply cloud security best practices across AWS/GCP and related cloud environments.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Go

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Security best practices

Linux/Unix

Networking fundamentals

Architectural design

Education

B.S. in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD tools

Job description

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. We are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV and Sports, Apple Music, Podcasts, and Books along with Cloud and Infrastructure Services platforms. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what we can accomplish together. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Are you passionate about building distributed, scalable solutions? Our team develops end to end software solutions and services that are consumed by numerous customers. This is a great opportunity to showcase your deep knowledge in software development, system architecture, and cloud technologies.

Description

Our team operates and maintains cloud infrastructure that demands high availability and performance. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in leading infrastructure and applications. We offer a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction of critical services for years to come. You are someone with ideas and a real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity!

Responsibilities

• You'll foster innovation, drive collaboration, and deliver scalable solutions to our customers.
• You will design and implement complete products, demonstrating expertise of the entire software development lifecycle.
• Partnering closely with developers, system and site reliability engineers, and customers, you'll analyze challenges and engineer robust solutions.
• This role encompasses end-to-end software design with a keen focus on scalability and reliability.
• This involves crafting RESTful APIs and services tailored to our diverse customer base.
• Embracing cutting-edge CI/CD tools and containers, you'll automate deployment processes, optimizing efficiency.
• You'll implement solutions to bolster reliability by vigilantly monitoring application health and swiftly diagnosing issues.
• Deploying robust authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure our applications and services is also an extremely critical component of this role.
• You’ll apply cloud security best practices at the organizational level to keep our environment secure. This includes working with AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and management (root) and member account structures, as well as equivalent constructs across other cloud providers such as GCP and Alibaba Cloud.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience working on large enterprise environments with the demonstrated ability to architect and deliver solutions at scale.
• 1+ YOE with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• 1+ YOE with CI/CD tools and techniques, containers, and Kubernetes
• 1+ YOE in Golang programming and the ability to pivot to other languages as needed
• Strong understanding of architectural design principles, including security, high availability, and resiliency.
• Experience applying cloud security best practices at the organizational level, including AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and management (root) and member accounts, with exposure to equivalent constructs in other clouds such as GCP and Alibaba Cloud.
• Proficiency in designing and building RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience operating and developing infrastructure and services in cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of network protocols and Linux/Unix system internals.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization technologies such as IAM and SSO.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading projects with minimal direction.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Leadership skills with the ability to mentor and inspire others.

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