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Compute Runtime Software Engineer

Apple
Seattle, WA Other
POSTED ON 9/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/8/2026
The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is building the next generation cloud compute services empowering Apple’s software developers to build the products our customers love. We're a fast moving, highly skilled team designing, developing and supporting the operation of a virtual machine and container-based compute platform that Apple’s server-side developers use to build, test and deploy their products! Our web-scale system hosts Apple’s core cloud services and has to stay highly available, secure and "just work”. That's a tall order, and we're looking to add more talented and passionate engineers who love challenges and providing a great user experience for developers. Do you enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of web-services? You should be curious about how systems work and, more meaningfully, how they fail. A domain expert with expertise in multiple technical areas, used to designing major features and able to resolve highly complex issues creatively and effectively taking ownership of major features and technologies to demonstrate a significant impact within the organization. Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to produce an impact on the organization through broad implementation of new ideas. Drive ideas from inception to implementation establishing a reputation sought out throughout the organization for advice and consultation through setting standards, process and technical direction. Ready to actively mentor engineers at all levels. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience. At least 5 years of software design and development experience in infrastructure engineering (compute, storage and network virtualization) with an emphasis on micro-services architectures and containerization Advanced programming language proficiency in C, C , Swift or Go, with a track record of designing and developing high performance, secured, scalable and reliable systems Hands-on experience with some or all of the following topics: Linux containerization, Linux filesystems, Image distribution, Content storage, Kernel and container security Love open source and collaboration Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Linux system programming Development experience in one or more of: Cloud security, Container / Linux Kernel security and API security Experience troubleshooting and diving into metrics to identify resource contention and bottlenecks Experience designing benchmarks and load tests to characterize performance and establish scalability models Development experience with container orchestration systems such as Docker, Kubernetes or Mesos is a plus Development experience in combination of virtualization and container technologies to build a cloud native hypervisor (KubeVirt, Kata, Firecracker, macOS Virtualization Framework) is a plus Systems programming experience on Darwin with Swift is a plus Programming Linux system virtualization based on Libvirt, QEMU, KVM Understanding of various shared networked storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems) is a plus

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