System Software Engineer – Darwin Server Core OS

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare and dental coverage

Educational reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Software Engineer for the Darwin Server team within Core OS. You will develop foundational OS components and server-focused features, contributing to cloud and private compute environments.

You will engage in problem definition, design, implementation, testing, and debugging, collaborating with client teams and Apple technologists to enable server deployments and cross-functional integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience with UNIX-like systems and OS architecture fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language (Swift, C, Rust, or Go).
• Familiarity with provisioning/orchestration (cloud-init, Kubernetes) and server observability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of the software development cycle from design to debugging.
• Work with client teams to build features for Darwin to meet development requirements.
• Collaborate with Apple technologists to enable server environments.

Skills

UNIX-like systems

Operating systems architecture

Swift

C

Rust

Go

cloud-init

Kubernetes

launchd

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

OCI

Containers

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Software Engineer for the Darwin Server team within Core OS. You will develop foundational OS components and server-focused features, contributing to cloud and private compute environments.

You will engage in problem definition, design, implementation, testing, and debugging, collaborating with client teams and Apple technologists to enable server deployments and cross-functional integrations.