Software Engineer - Compute

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is hiring an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure for the ASE Compute team. You will focus on VM lifecycle management and bare metal provisioning, ensuring scalable, high-availability services across Apple's Cloud Platform.

You will work with world‑class engineers on core components, automate workflows, and leverage AI-assisted automation to accelerate triage and operations, while collaborating with multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering-related field, or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year in a Site Reliability Engineering infrastructure focused role.
• Strong experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Go or Python and OpenStack, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a distributed environment.
• Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production compute environments.
• Prepare runbooks and collaborate with SRE teams; participate in on-call rotations.
• Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure and routines.
• Leverage AI to gain insights and build tools for production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and program management teams.

Skills

Go

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Automation

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

KVM

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Summary

People at Apple don't just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple's services (such as iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)'s Compute team is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure, ensuring that services scale to meet the demands of Apple's Services offerings. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Apple's Cloud Platform with an emphasis on VM lifecycle management and bare metal infrastructure to help fit Apple's diverse needs. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users. This role offers unique opportunities to solve problems through AI-assisted automation, including building and leveraging AI tools to accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure tooling tailored to SRE workflows and infrastructure operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement innovative solutions around VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a highly distributed environment
• Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production compute environments
• Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime
• Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure as well as other routine processes
• Leverage AI to gain insight across large systems and build tools that can be used in a production environment
• Interact with and support partner teams, including engineering, QA, and program management

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.
• 1+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software
• Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes
• Highly proficient in Go or Python
• Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others
• Experienced with highly distributed unix systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting at a planet scale
• Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service
• Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform