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Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple, Inc.
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2026
We are looking for an experienced Build and Release Engineer to help develop and maintain the next-generation of Apple's cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit, Apple's foundational privacy-focused database platform, which securely stores users' data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices.\\n\\nCloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a platform designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications, but it is also the storage foundation for Apple's signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third party applications!\\n\\nWe are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple's customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will build and maintain the frameworks, tooling, pipelines, and infrastructure that enable our engineers ship great software with speed and confidence.

We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in build systems and release automation. Engineers who can demonstrate unique leadership skills, are passionate about working in a complex environment and codebase, and constantly obsess about the developer experience.

4 years of experience building automation frameworks and tools using Python, Golang, or Bash\nHands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines\nProficient in source code dependency management, artifact packaging, and release automation\nKnowledge of operating systems administration (linux or unix), network, and compiler concepts\nExperience with containers, cluster management, and cloud-native deployment patterns\nExperience troubleshooting distributed systems, including debugging Java-based stack traces\nBachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Strong familiarity with version control systems, e.g., GitHub or GitLab\nStrong background with infrastructure-as-code tools, e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet\nStrong fundamentals in CI/CD software, e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Bamboo\nProficient in build and packaging automation, e.g., Maven, Gradle, Make, and Artifactory\nExperience using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and cloud native technologies, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC\nExperience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including operators and Helm charts\nExperience with monitoring and observability tooling, e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog

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