Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Performance Testing at Scale

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental cover

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Educational expense reimbursement

Relocation assistance and bonuses

Job summary

Apple in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff/Sr. Software Engineer for the Performance Testing Platform. You will design, build, and operate infrastructure enabling developers to test, measure, and trust performance before shipping.

You’ll work with product and information intelligence teams to deliver scalable, reliable tooling that supports billions of users. The role focuses on traffic capture/replay, load testing, and statistical analysis to project dev results to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development involving large-scale distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Strong interest in building performance tooling.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate the performance testing platform that lets developers across Search load-test and validate infrastructure changes before they reach production.
• Build and improve traffic capture/replay and load-generation tooling, along with the pipelines that process the resulting performance data at scale.
• Apply statistical analysis to project how performance results measured in dev environments will translate to production, and to detect regressions before rollout.
• Collaborate closely with product, search, and information intelligence teams to define infrastructure requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Ensure the health and performance of critical infrastructure by monitoring key metrics, troubleshooting complex issues, and participating in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance tooling

System design

Algorithms

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Apple in Seattle, WA is seeking a Staff/Sr. Software Engineer for the Performance Testing Platform. You will design, build, and operate infrastructure enabling developers to test, measure, and trust performance before shipping.

You’ll work with product and information intelligence teams to deliver scalable, reliable tooling that supports billions of users. The role focuses on traffic capture/replay, load testing, and statistical analysis to project dev results to production.