March 4, 2025

Cloud Infrastructure Software Developer

Mid • On-site

$143,100 - $264,200/yr

Cupertino, CA

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200593538
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 Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the 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 and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is seeking highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in on our quest to build and enhance massive clusters hosting Virtual Machines, Containers and associated infrastructure that can scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offerings. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Virtualization and Containerization technologies, customize it to help fit Apple’s diverse needs, and engage with the upstream community to drive Apple’s requirements. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users.

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. In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining distributed compute systems for cloud platforms. You will - Closely collaborate with teams within and across organizations - Design, implement, and debug software components - Write and review code, generate and review design documentation - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters - Benchmark, analyze and improve scale, performance and resiliency issues - Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products

Minimum Qualifications

  • At least 2+ years with Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience
  • Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed system concepts.
  • Highly proficient in Golang and Java
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills.
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience integrating with and extending Apache CloudStack is a plus, or general infrastructure automation experience is a bonus
  • Programming Linux system virtualization based on Libvirt, QEMU, KVM
  • Understanding of various storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems)
  • Experience in designing and developing highly scalable web API-based request processing systems (Spring, Kafka)

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 $143,100 and $264,200, 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. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

    Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.