Apple's Developer Publications Platform Engineering team needs to scale and improve existing technology, while also innovating on new products, infrastructure, and tooling for documentation workflows in Xcode, Swift Playgrounds, and Apple's developer website.
Requirements
- Proficient in Ruby, Rails, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and similar technologies
- Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and delivery
- Ability to discuss technical tradeoffs across the stack, including: system architecture, database design, API design, and infrastructure
- Knowledge of and familiarity with developing in Apple’s ecosystem, including the Unix platform, Xcode, and macOS
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines and deployments
Responsibilities
- help scale and improve our existing technology, while also innovate on new products, infrastructure, and tooling
- architecting of reliable systems
- define and scope backend infrastructure needs
- producing well tested, performant and reliable code to the multiple systems we maintain
- Write detailed architecture and design proposals
- engage in code review, pair programming and architecture discussions with other members of the team
- ensure our tools and systems integrate seamlessly
Other
- Collaborate closely with software developers, designers, technical writers and program managers
- Participate in the team culture
- Work cross functionally with other teams across Apple
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, understand needs, and define test strategies
- Excellent communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
