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Storage Systems Engineer, Software Delivery & Technologies

Apple· Software Delivery & Technologies (SD&T)
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Cupertino$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Storage Systems Engineer within SD&T responsible for developing storage systems, deploying storage services to production, and applying reliability engineering to on-premise storage infrastructure used by Apple software engineers. Focus on design, development, observability, incident management, and reporting SLIs/SLOs for a large-scale distributed storage environment.

Responsibilities

  • Software development to enhance storage reliability and performance
  • Secure architecture design and infrastructure engineering of storage platforms
  • Deployments, configuration, and monitoring of open source storage platforms at enterprise scale
  • Automate continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines of storage environments
  • Engineer and test in Development and UAT environments with goal of 99.9% uptime of Production environments
  • Implement observability of storage systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting
  • Generate reports regarding service metrics on performance, availability, and reliability
  • Champion practices regarding change control management and incident response
  • Proactively communicate engineering project status to stakeholders and follow through on committed timelines
  • Explore engineering options to problems, present risk vs reward, then execute best approach
  • Demonstrate willingness to ask for clarification and increase awareness of the larger context
  • Collaborate asynchronously with global team members across multiple timezones
  • Draft RFC proposals, document new processes, and update existing documentation
  • Eager and curious to learn across multiple technology stacks

Qualifications

  • Experience in designing distributed storage systems for reliability, scalability, security, and performant HA/DR
  • Experience implementing and troubleshooting distributed systems across storage, networking, and security
  • Incident management experience in managing customer-facing storage systems in 24/7 environment
  • Excellent judgment and integrity with ability to make timely and data-driven decisions
  • Capacity to adapt to changing requirements and anticipate the needs of stakeholders
  • Education: Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
  • Programming Language: Python, Swift, Go, or similar
  • Uses agentic AI workflows regularly for triaging incidents and root cause analysis
  • Applies agentic AI coding tools for engineering development and test validation
  • Experience as storage administrator (e.g. NFS filesystem, S3 object)
  • Experience with container platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)

Skills

Required:Python
Nice to have:SwiftGoNFS filesystem / S3 object storageDocker / KubernetesMonitoring/Alerting toolsObservability / SLIs and SLOs

Benefits

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

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