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System Software Engineer

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

The Cloud OS System Software Team at Apple seeks a Software Engineer to build, optimize, and maintain OS-level components and system services for data center infrastructure on Apple silicon servers. The role focuses on orchestrating workloads, leveraging hardware acceleration for AI/ML and HPC workloads, and ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems in data center environments.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components for data center infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve performance, security, and resource efficiency across distributed systems.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges.
  • Contribute to the development of automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to improve system reliability.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions related to OS-level services.
  • Stay up to date with emerging OS technologies, virtualization, and containerization trends in data center environments.
  • Design, implement, and maintain system daemons that manage hardware components and host processes
  • Implement robust fault detection and recovery mechanisms for hardware and daemon failures.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C, Swift
  • Strong knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.
  • Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Creative, collaborative, and product-focused
  • Solid understanding of Linux or Apple OS system programming, including process management, IPC, signals, and daemon lifecycle.
  • Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:C/C++Obj-CSwiftLinux system programming

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation (where eligible)
  • Employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and stock purchase plan eligibility
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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