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Software Engineer, OS and System Services

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on building, optimizing, and maintaining OS-level components and system services for data center infrastructure. Collaborate across teams to enhance performance, security, and resource efficiency, with emphasis on virtualization, containerization, and hardware acceleration for AI/ML workloads on a novel compute platform.

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 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.
  • Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated innovative and creative thinking capabilities.
  • 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.

Skills

Required:OS-level software development

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational reimbursement for career advancement
  • Discretionary bonuses or commissions (potential)
  • Relocation assistance (potential)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Apple shareholder eligibility through discretionary stock programs
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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