Job Details

Cloud Infrastructure Software Developer

Seattle, Washington, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Apr 08, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200598651

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 Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). Apple’s uniquely seamless hardware, software and services integration means that you will get to work with world-class engineers from a variety of subject areas to design and deliver 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 that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance internal cloud infrastructure offerings. You will be responsible for core components of this groundbreaking platform, integrating the latest cloud hardware technologies with Apple’s own hardware and software. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to deliver forward-looking high-performance virtualized infrastructure, supporting everything from cutting edge LLMs to maximum-security confidential computing environments. You will partner with internal application teams to understand their requirements, co-design operating system features and datacenter infrastructure to meet your needs, and look ahead at emerging technologies to incorporate them into our services.

Description

In this role you will be responsible for:
-Working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of infrastructure services.
-Be curious about how systems work and, more importantly, how they fail.
-Software engineer with experience in infrastructure, expected to own and develop significant software features from concept to production, involving cross-functional teams
-Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to impact the success of the platform
-Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues
-Work with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality to meet their infrastructure needs

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience

• 2+ years of software design and development experience in API-based cloud service orchestration, with an emphasis on “infrastructure-as-a-service” (compute, storage and network virtualization) as a plus

• Java proficiency with a track record of designing and developing scalable web API-based request processing systems (e.g. Spring, Kafka) as a plus

• Familiarity with systems concepts such as operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, networking

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams

• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating with and extending Apache CloudStack

• Prior work on diverse hardware, operating systems, and virtualization stacks (Qemu, KVM, Libvirt on x86, ARM)

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 $135,400 and $250,600, 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. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

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 seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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