Apple · 2 months ago
Compute Runtime Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $258K/yr
5+ years expApple is seeking a Compute Runtime Software Engineer to join their Apple Services Engineering team. This role involves designing, developing, and supporting a virtual machine and container-based compute platform that empowers Apple’s software developers, ensuring high availability and security of Apple's core cloud services.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Do you enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of web-services?
You should be curious about how systems work and, more meaningfully, how they fail
A domain expert with expertise in multiple technical areas, used to designing major features and able to resolve highly complex issues creatively and effectively taking ownership of major features and technologies to demonstrate a significant impact within the organization
Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to produce an impact on the organization through broad implementation of new ideas
Drive ideas from inception to implementation establishing a reputation sought out throughout the organization for advice and consultation through setting standards, process and technical direction
Ready to actively mentor engineers at all levels
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience
At least 5+ years of software design and development experience in infrastructure engineering (compute, storage and network virtualization) with an emphasis on micro-services architectures and containerization
Advanced programming language proficiency in C, C++, Swift or Go, with a track record of designing and developing high performance, secured, scalable and reliable systems
Hands-on experience with some or all of the following topics: Linux containerization, Linux filesystems, Image distribution, Content storage, Kernel and container security
Love open source and collaboration
Preferred
Experience with Linux system programming
Development experience in one or more of: Cloud security, Container / Linux Kernel security and API security
Experience troubleshooting and diving into metrics to identify resource contention and bottlenecks
Experience designing benchmarks and load tests to characterize performance and establish scalability models
Development experience with container orchestration systems such as Docker, Kubernetes or Mesos is a plus
Development experience in combination of virtualization and container technologies to build a cloud native hypervisor (KubeVirt, Kata, Firecracker, macOS Virtualization Framework) is a plus
Systems programming experience on Darwin with Swift is a plus
Programming Linux system virtualization based on Libvirt, QEMU, KVM Understanding of various shared networked storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems) is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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