Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization builds the high-performance, reliable, and scalable platforms that power Apple's services. Our Compute team designs and builds the foundational pieces of our internal cloud infrastructure. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams across Apple to engineer cutting-edge, high-performance distributed storage solutions that form the foundation of diverse cloud platforms.
Requirements
- Strong systems programming skills and a deep understanding of operating system fundamentals (memory management, concurrency, I/O, networking).
- Solid grasp of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts (e.g., consensus, consistency models, failure modes).
- Hands-on experience with distributed storage solutions (e.g., Ceph, ScaleIO, GlusterFS, HDFS) is highly desirable.
- Experience developing and managing applications on Kubernetes; experience writing CSI plugins is a plus.
- Familiarity with using or contributing to cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g., AWS S3/EBS, GCP Cloud Storage/Persistent Disk, OpenStack Swift/Cinder).
- Proficiency in Go (Golang) applied to systems-level development.
- Experience building software solutions in other relevant languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, or Swift.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with teams within ASE and across Apple to understand requirements and integrate solutions.
- Design, implement, test, and debug software components for our storage systems.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and actively participate in code reviews.
- Develop and review detailed design documentation for new features and system architectures.
- Participate in the qualification, deployment, and monitoring of software across large-scale production clusters.
- Benchmark, analyze, and optimize system performance, scalability, and resiliency.
- Uphold the high standard of quality and reliability expected of Apple products and infrastructure.
Other
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly within the team and to stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A genuine enthusiasm for building high-quality, robust systems.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, plus 2+ years in system software development, OR an MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
