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Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Apple, Inc.
Washington, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 10/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/12/2026
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The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple's services (such as iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and \\"just work.\\" If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)'s Compute team is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure, ensuring that services scale to meet the demands of Apple's Services offerings. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Apple's Cloud Platform with an emphasis on VM lifecycle management and bare metal infrastructure to help fit Apple's diverse needs. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users. This role offers unique opportunities to solve problems through AI-assisted automation, including building and leveraging AI tools to accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure tooling tailored to SRE workflows and infrastructure operations.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

7 years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software

Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems

Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes

Highly proficient in Go or Python

Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others

Experienced with highly distributed unix systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting at a planet scale

Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service

Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform

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