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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Distributed Systems - ACS

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer in Test for Apple Cloud Engineering, focusing on integrating and testing software to lead and orchestrate workloads across high-performance, energy-efficient data center systems, with emphasis on hardware acceleration for machine learning and HPC workloads, and building scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain system infrastructure powering next generation data centers.
  • Automate and validate hardware, software, and services across teams (architecture, platform design, SOC architects, software teams).
  • Craft, implement, and complete test plans and test suites based on specification documents.
  • Ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests.
  • Triage problems, prioritize issues, and propose resolutions.
  • Collaborate to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test or Software Quality Engineer
  • Scripting and programming skills in C/C++, Golang, Python, Shell
  • Excellent Automation skills and CI/CD pipeline experience is a plus
  • Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge
  • Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar
  • Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution
  • Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools is a definite +
  • Passion for software architecture, APIs and high performance extensible software
  • Creative, collaborative, and product-focused
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Software Development Engineer in Test / Software Quality Engineer experienceProgramming languagesCloud and container orchestrationMicroservices and deployment patterns
Nice to have:Automation and CI/CDSwift/Objective-C experience

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (role may be eligible)
  • Relocation assistance
  • Apple discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs, stock purchase plan)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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