Cloud Infrastructure Software Developer

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, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). Apple's uniquely seamless hardware, software and services integration means that you will get to work with world-class engineers from a variety of fields to design and deliver 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 that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! Apple Service Engineering (ASE)'s Compute team is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance internal cloud infrastructure offerings and interrelated services to leverage and support Apple technologies. You will work on and be responsible for core components of the platform. You will partner with internal application teams to understand their requirements and co-design operating system features and datacenter infrastructure to meet your needs.

Description

• Enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and, more importantly, how they fail.

• Software engineer with experience in infrastructure, expected to own significant features from concept to production, involving multi-functional teams

• Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to impact the success of the platform

• Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

• Work with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to meet their infrastructure needs

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of software design and development experience in API-based cloud service orchestration, with an emphasis on "infrastructure-as-a-service" (compute, storage and network virtualization) as a plus

• Java proficiency with a track record of designing and developing scalable web API-based request processing systems (e.g. Spring, Kafka)

• Familiarity with security concepts ( e.g. process isolation, encryption, access control ) or storage solutions (e.g. iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems) or networking concepts (e.g. SDN, VXLAN, VPC networking, tap devices, multi queue)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams

• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $138,900 and $256,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.