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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team builds and enhances systems and infrastructure to power Apple's services (e.g., iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Maps). The role focuses on deploying workloads on Kubernetes clusters, contributing to core Kubernetes components, and collaborating with SRE and upstream communities to meet Apple’s scalability, availability, and performance needs.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality that enable Kubernetes clusters to meet their needs around container orchestration.
  • Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services centered around Kubernetes
  • Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth while ensuring customer satisfaction and smooth operations
  • Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
  • Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
  • Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters preferred
  • Highly proficient in Golang
  • Track record of owning technical design end-to-end — from design docs and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems

Skills

Required:KubernetesGolangSystem designDistributed systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • possible discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • discretionary stock awards (RSUs)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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