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Apple Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Compute Platform United States, California, Cupertino 23955361
09.07.2025
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Our team works on evolving a set of innovative distributed backend services and tools to deliver a high volume of functional, deterministic computations for SW build systems. You’ll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques in order to achieve high performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. You'll analyze problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems and make high-level architectural decisions about how to design the backend, considering both medium and long-term goals. You will work alongside your team to implement them while developing appropriate testing and operational mechanisms. You will be most successful here as a flexible and proactive engineer who thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and challenging problems to tackle. You have excellent judgement and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions. You know how to drive constructive discussion of design points, learn from your team, and use your experience to advocate and teach others. Here you’ll find that we: Have a wide range of experience, from new engineers to Apple veterans. Provide a relaxed work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to dig into your projects. Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture. Encourage you to use accrued vacation time and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
- Experience with building and operating distributed compute systems.
- Experience with high-performance, strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, C++, Scala, or others.
- Familiarity with caching, compilers, networking, and operating systems.
- Ability to efficiently develop, debug, and support new technologies in a changing environment.
- Familiarity with some large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques.
- Experience with incident management and response.
- Strong interest in distributed systems, reliability, and performance.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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