Design and deliver high-performance virtualized infrastructure to support Apple's services such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps
Requirements
- Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts
- Familiarity with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance, especially in the context of infrastructure management
- Fluency in Golang, Python, or similar languages in a systems or distributed systems context
- Familiarity with node management systems like SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet or similar solutions
- Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals
- Prior experience of working with diverse hardware, operating systems, container runtimes (lxc, docker, containerd) and virtualization stacks (Qemu, KVM, Libvirt on x86, ARM)
- Prior working experience and deep understanding of node management agents (e.g., kubelet), and node orchestration solutions to manage large scale infrastructures
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize virtualized compute offerings on a wide variety of hardware types
- Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and highly available services that support infrastructure management
- Monitor on-server system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to enhance efficiency of workloads in a virtualized computing environment
- Conduct root cause analysis for on-server system failures and implement preventive measures
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams across Apple to understand, integrate, and optimize critical workloads into our platform
- Participate in software release qualifications, and large scale software and hardware upgrades to production clusters
- Participate in a business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution
Other
- BS with 2+ years of experience in system software development or MS in Computer Science
- Customer-focused thinking and strong problem solving with attention to detail
- Ability to effectively communicate within a team and with project collaborators
