Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

We are looking for an experienced Build and Release Engineer to help develop and maintain the next-generation of Apples cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit Apples foundational privacy-focused database platform which securely stores users data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud it is purpose built to be performant highly available and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a platform designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications but it is also the storage foundation for Apples signature cloud experiences such as Photos Drive Notes Keynote News and many third party applications!nnWe are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apples customers. As a key member of a versatile organization you will build and maintain the frameworks tooling pipelines and infrastructure that enable our engineers ship great software with speed and confidence.

We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in build systems and release automation. Engineers who can demonstrate unique leadership skills are passionate about working in a complex environment and codebase and constantly obsess about the developer experience.

Develop and maintain CI/CD automation to streamline the build and release processesnManage multi-environment pipelines handling pull request reviews code validation and deployments nManage the release lifecycle including artifact packaging publishing qualification and deploymentnDefine and enforce release processes branching strategies and deployment standardsnPartner with teams across CloudKit to improve developer workflows and build system reliabilitynTriage investigate and remediate build failures deployment issues and infrastructure incidents

4 years of experience building automation frameworks and tools using Python Golang or BashnHands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesnProficient in source code dependency management artifact packaging and release automationnKnowledge of operating systems administration (linux or unix) network and compiler conceptsnExperience with containers cluster management and cloud-native deployment patternsnExperience troubleshooting distributed systems including debugging Java-based stack tracesnBachelors degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Strong familiarity with version control systems e.g. GitHub or GitLabnStrong background with infrastructure-as-code tools e.g. Terraform Ansible or PuppetnStrong fundamentals in CI/CD software e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions or BamboonProficient in build and packaging automation e.g. Maven Gradle Make and ArtifactorynExperience using AWS GCP and cloud native technologies e.g. Docker Kubernetes and gRPCnExperience with Kubernetes for container orchestration including operators and Helm chartsnExperience with monitoring and observability tooling e.g. Prometheus Grafana or Datadog