Summary

Our team is on a mission to provide innovative infrastructure and tools that impact engineers’ work by making software easier to create, build, test, and distribute. We believe that streamlining software engineering is an important part of unlocking developer creativity and innovation, and we enjoy when Apple customers see that in the products we ship. We are looking for an engineer to create software, systems, tools, and processes to ensure the products we build are reliable, resilient, effective, and efficient. Production engineers work closely with our product development teams to guide their service development and identify the most valuable areas to improve. We believe that every member of a team brings unique skills and perspective. Far more than any specific experience or skill, we are looking for technically hands-on engineers who want to ship reliable software and services that solve real-world problems and ultimately enable others to develop amazing applications. You would join a small, tight-knit group of engineers who build exciting new technology and have fun while doing so.

Minimum Qualifications

3 years of professional software engineering experience
Experience in services or systems software development (e.g. in Golang, Rust, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

Positive and respectful attitude in a diverse environment.
Exposure to distributed systems design and desire to grow in the space.
Ability to shift between engineering disciplines such as distributed systems, UIs, data pipelines, batch processing, etc.
Interest in tools and systems that support developing, building, testing, and releasing software.
Interest in solving developer productivity needs using new programming languages, software stacks, and hardware architectures.
Experience working closely with other developers to fit projects to their needs.
Launch fast and iterate approach to building software.

Description

Our team works on evolving a set of innovative tools and services that directly affect the productivity of Apple’s developers. You’ll develop software to make it easier and more effective for teams to run their services reliably at scale. You’ll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established techniques related to large-scale cloud services, enabling developers to work efficiently at a high standard of quality. By working with teams and services across the organization, you’ll help to shape their best practices and decide which projects you can deliver next for the greatest impact. Your code will help to improve existing services while blazing new paths working with Apple’s technology stack. 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 bring energy and a desire to learn into our existing small group. You work well across teams to create solutions that work for everyone. In your role as a production engineer on our team you will:

Build and maintain scalable and reliable systems that meet the needs of our customers.

Develop software tools to help teams at Apple run reliable services in domains including production observability, deployments, and overload protection.

Collaborate with development teams to identify and address system bottlenecks, performance issues, resource inefficiencies, scalability concerns, and opportunities for automation.

Engage with other teams to establish long term relationships that include knowledge sharing.

Develop expertise and be given ownership over components critical to Apple’s success.

Help to design new ways to scale Apple’s distributed developer tools and services to ever increasing problem sizes.

Have access to the engineers who create Apple’s full technology, tools, and operating systems stack.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $204,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

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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