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Software Engineer, System Services

Yesterday Seattle, WA

The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an exceptional software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers.

In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture.

We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems.

Description

You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests.

You are the right match if:

You possess strong skills in software design and programming.

You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs.

You have strong problem-solving skills.

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You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it

Preferred Qualifications

Good grasp of system integration and management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA)

Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar

Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge

Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools

Knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years of software engineering experience

Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C

Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software

Excellent communication skills

Creative, collaborative, and product-focused

Comfortable diving deep, working across multiple levels of abstraction

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 .

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA
Job ID: apple-200632302-3337_rxr-658
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-11-17T19:10:57

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    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

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              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion

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