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Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Apple· Apple Service Engineering (ASE)
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Seattle, WA$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

SRE software engineer role within ASE Compute to design, build, and operate compute infrastructure (VM orchestration, bare metal provisioning) at scale for Apple's services, with AI-assisted automation and collaboration across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and implement innovative solutions around VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a highly distributed environment
  • Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production compute environments
  • Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams
  • Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime
  • Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure as well as other routine processes
  • Leverage AI to gain insight across large systems and build tools that can be used in a production environment
  • Interact with and support partner teams, including engineering, QA, and program management

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.
  • 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software
  • Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes
  • Highly proficient in Go or Python
  • Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others
  • Experienced with highly distributed unix systems

Skills

Required:VM orchestrationBare metal provisioningGoPythonCloud infrastructureKubernetesOpenStackKVM/hypervisorInfrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Possible discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • Relocation assistance
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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