System Design Engineer
Craft elegant solutions to complex challenges in our compute team, designing and building foundational data center software. Collaborate with engineers across Apple to deploy scalable, reliable batch cloud systems supporting research and development.
The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds systems powering Apple services (iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Maps). You will work with world-class engineers from various fields to design and deliver seamless products.
As a System Design Engineer on the control-plane team:
* Participate in designing and developing control plane components (scheduling, resource management, APIs, high-availability) for a large-scale multi-site cloud batch platform.
* Deliver essential new features using platform runtime, storage, and networking capabilities.
* Write and review code, generate and review design documentation.
* Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.
* Participate in local business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution.
* Work with various software and hardware engineering teams across Apple to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform.
Requirements
* BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
* Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts.
* In-depth knowledge of algorithms and distributed system architectures.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Fluency in Golang, Python, or similar languages.
* Experience developing and managing large-scale production systems.
* Familiarity with scheduling, batch, or cloud architectures.
* Experience with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Zookeeper, etcd.
* Interested in measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance.
* Customer-focused thinking and strong problem solver with attention to detail.
* Teammate with great interpersonal skills.
Salary: $120,000 - $180,000 per year