Software Engineer, Developer Experience & Platform Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Educational expense reimbursement

Bonuses or commissions

Relocation

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Software Development Engineer for Developer Experience and Platform Tools in Cupertino, CA. You will own platform qualification, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering across multiple compute platforms, collaborating with SRE, hardware, OS, and platform teams to automate releases.

The role emphasizes building scalable infrastructure, writing code, and improving performance for both x86 and Apple Silicon, including on-call responsibilities and a focus on

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.
• Strong fundamentals of distributed systems, operating systems, and comfort (or curiosity) debugging at the OS and hardware boundary
• Familiarity with all aspects of software development, from architecture to deployment and maintenance
• Customer-focused thinking and strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners across different time zones
• Enthusiasm about upholding Apple’s standards in product quality, design, and user 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

Software design

Debugging

Test automation

CI/CD design

Distributed systems

Operating systems

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent related experience

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple is seeking a Software Development Engineer for Developer Experience and Platform Tools in Cupertino, CA. You will own platform qualification, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering across multiple compute platforms, collaborating with SRE, hardware, OS, and platform teams to automate releases.

The role emphasizes building scalable infrastructure, writing code, and improving performance for both x86 and Apple Silicon, including on-call responsibilities and a focus on