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Distributed Build Systems Senior Engineer

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Jul 2024

💰 $378,700/yr($252,400/yr – $378,700/yr)

About the role

Summary

Posted: Jul 16, 2024
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200559309

The SWE Developer Productivity organization builds technologies and tools to help software engineers at Apple to do the best work of their lives. The Unified Build team within that organization is seeking a hands-on, versatile senior engineer to lead development of foundational build technologies and breakthrough current performance and scalability barriers. 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 a senior engineer to join our distributed build systems efforts. You'll be developing novel distributed architectures and products for accelerating software build and test cycles. We are applying unique and innovative ideas to old problems and welcome new contributors who are excited by the opportunity to significantly impact the shape and direction of our product. If you enjoy working on build systems and distributed systems, then we have many exciting problems to work on! Your work will directly impact Apple’s ability to produce, test, and deliver software to not only Apple’s internal teams, but to millions of customers.

Description

You'll work across build engineering teams to solve OS scale build system problems by leveraging an innovative distributed backend infrastructure at our disposal. You'll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques in order to achieve both high performance and reliability. You'll analyze problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems and make high-level architectural decisions about how to architect the backend, considering both short- and long-term goals. Once solutions are identified, you will work alongside build engineering teams to implement them while developing appropriate testing and operational mechanisms. We’re looking for a senior engineer who will be comfortable working across the stack, working with partner teams to optimize, secure, or otherwise improve our operating systems, and infrastructure teams who aid us to deliver software at scale. An ideal candidate will be motivated by learning how Apple ships software at scale and will bring creative new ideas and expertise to the table to improve the reliability, scalability, and capabilities of all of our build services and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience with cloud orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes
Development experience with Swift, Objective-C, and scripting languages
Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques
Experience with debugging and triaging of issues in unfamiliar code bases
Experience developing for Apple platforms
A data-driven approach to problem solving

Preferred Qualifications

Positive and respectful attitude in a diverse environment
Excellent judgment and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions
Fastidious attention to detail

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 $252,400 and $378,700, 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 mig