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Software Engineer, System Services

Apple
Seattle, WA Other
POSTED ON 9/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/8/2026
The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an exceptional software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers. In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture. We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems. You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests. You are the right match if: You possess strong skills in software design and programming. You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs. You have strong problem-solving skills. You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it Minimum Qualifications: 4 years of software engineering experience Proficiency in one of C/C , Obj-C Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software Excellent communication skills Creative, collaborative, and product-focused Comfortable diving deep, working across multiple levels of abstraction Preferred Qualifications: Good grasp of system integration and management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA) Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools Knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.

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