Summary
The SWE Developer Foundations organisation builds technologies and tools to help software engineers at Apple to do the best work of their lives. Our team supports that mission by building innovative infrastructure and tools to provide engineers with capabilities to quickly and efficiently build and test their changes, supporting both the development lifecycle of their changes, as well as the end‑customer product. We are looking for distributed systems engineers to join our efforts.
Description
As an engineer in SWE Developer Foundations, you’ll learn how Apple builds and releases software and you’ll be encouraged to research established distributed system techniques to apply to our unique domain in order to achieve high performance, reliability and long‑term maintainability. You’ll have space to perform experiments, make recommendations, and ultimately changes, to our infrastructure to realise its full potential. You’ll then ultimately have a chance to present your work to our leadership team.
Responsibilities
* In your role as a member of our team you will:
* Spend the majority of your time building distributed services and tooling in Swift, deploying frequently with Kubernetes and profiling changes with Xcode or distributed tracing tooling.
* Contribute to engineering a high‑performance system through algorithm design, optimization, and performance testing, helping scale to ever‑increasing problem sizes.
* Have access to the engineers who create Apple’s full technology, tools, and operating systems stack.
* Here you’ll find that we:
* Provide a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment.
* Value curiosity, and obsess over the customer experience.
* Have a wide range of experience, from new engineers to Apple veterans.
Minimum Qualifications
* Experience with building and operating distributed storage and/or distributed compute systems.
* Experience with high‑performance, strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, C++, Scala, or others.
* Strong interest in distributed systems, reliability, and cloud services.
* Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with OS/Systems Programming fundamentals, particularly with respect to performance optimisation.
* Familiarity with the Swift‑on‑Server ecosystem.
* Familiarity with cloud compute/storage technologies like Kubernetes and Cassandra.
* Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques.
* Familiarity with virtualisation/ containerisation technology.
* Understanding of distributed systems problems and algorithms.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced, and how we think, and we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodation. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.
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