Design Elegant Solutions at Apple
Are you passionate about crafting sophisticated solutions to intricate challenges? Can you naturally appreciate the significance of every detail?
At Apple, our compute team is responsible for designing and building the fundamental components of our data center software.
Role Overview
In this role, you will collaborate with engineers across Apple to develop and deploy scalable, reliable, and high-performance batch cloud systems that support Apple's research and development.
The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple's services, including iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps.
Our unique integration of hardware, software, and services means you'll work with world-class engineers from diverse fields to design and deliver products that customers love.
Our services must scale globally, remain highly available, and 'just work.'
Job Responsibilities
1. Participate in the design and development of control plane components, including scheduling, resource management, APIs, and high-availability features, for a large-scale multi-site cloud batch platform.
2. Deliver essential new features using the platform runtime, storage, and networking capabilities.
3. Write and review code, generate and review design documentation.
4. Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.
5. Participate in local business-hours rotation, where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution.
6. Work with various software and hardware engineering teams across Apple to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform.
Minimum Qualifications
* 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.
* Interest in measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance.
* Customer-focused thinking and strong problem solver with attention to detail.
* Teammate with great interpersonal skills.