We are looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate systems engineer to join as a member of Fleet Management’s Provisioning team. This team builds the systems that automate server lifecycle management across Apple’s global data centers — turning raw hardware into ready-for-production resources that scale with Apple’s needs. You will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform of many critical Apple internet services takes for years to come. You are someone who can investigate, diagnose, remediate and automate low-level system failures in the server provisioning path. Your engineering will impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features. The successful candidate must have experience in software development, server management, and hardware failure. They must have experience driving projects or small teams to deliver on time and in fast-changing environments. They must have some experience working across multiple timezones to deliver and launch production-changing projects. Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software engineer in a high-level language such as Golang (preferred), C++, Java or Python or equivalent. Solid understanding of real hardware failures across multiple server components Solid understanding of remote datacenter management Proven track record driving large projects within software development teams, with experience delivering infrastructure platforms BSc./MSc. in Computer Science-related field, or equivalent work experience of more than 5 years. Experience with DHCPv4 and DHCPv6, BIOS/UEFI and PXE Experience with high-performance GPU concepts such as RDMA, RoCE and HPC concepts more broadly. Experience with large scale server orchestration (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell, Cloudstack)