Software Development Engineer (Developer Experience and Platform Tools)

Envision your potential here at Apple where fresh concepts swiftly transform into extraordinary products. Bring your passion and dedication to your role and theres no limit to what we can achieve together. Were seeking a diligent and enthusiastic individual to join our exceptional team and if thats you wed love to hear from you!nnThe Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team is responsible for the systems and infrastructure that drive Apples services including iCloud Apple Music Apple TV Siri and Maps amongst others. Apples unique integration of hardware software and services means youll collaborate with top-tier engineers from various disciplines to design and deliver products our customers adore. Our services must scale globally remain highly available and just ASE Compute team is looking for a software engineer to own the tooling that lets our internal cloud compute platforms ship quickly and safely. You will own and evolve our platform qualification and test automation service the system that decides whether a hardware or software release is fit for production and own the CI/CD and release engineering practice for software that powers multiple internal compute platforms. This is a builder role: youll write the tools define the release pipelines and then work with platform SRE and hardware engineering teams to qualify new server generations and OS releases across both x86 and Apple silicon server you like being the catalyst who makes a magnitude of other engineers faster and are excited about the idea of differentiating the tests passed and we know this release is good this is the role.n

In this role as part of the ASE Compute Organization you will:nn* Own and develop our platform qualification and test automation service end to end architecture code API and data model growing it into the authoritative signal for release readiness across our compute fleetn* Own CI/CD and release engineering for systems that lay foundation of multiple compute platforms design the pipelines promotion gates artifact and versioning strategy and rollout mechanics that take a change from commit to production across many sitesn* Drive software qualification for hardware and software releases including new server generations and OS/firmware releases on both x86 and Apple Silicon. Define what qualified means automate the evidence for it and shorten the qualification cycle from weeks to daysn* Write and review code generate and review design documentationn* Enjoy working on scalability resilience security efficiency and performance limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and more importantly how they failn* Approach complex issues with creativity ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to impact the success of the platformn* Participate in on-call rotation and partner with the SRE team to triage investigate and resolve production issuesn* Partner with hardware/software engineering OS and platform teams across Apple to make qualification a first-class automated part of every releasenn

Demonstrated ability to design debug and test complex software systemsn3 years of experience in related software development (or comparable academic experience)nExperience designing and building CI/CD systems build/release pipelines or developer tooling used by other engineering teamsnExperience with test automation at scale: designing test frameworks managing test infrastructure and producing release signal engineers and other teams can trustnBachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent related fundamentals of distributed systems operating systems and comfort (or curiosity) debugging at the OS and hardware boundarynFamiliarity with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenancenCustomer-focused thinking and strong problem-solving skills with attention to detailnExcellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners across different time zonesnEnthusiasm about upholding Apples standards in product quality design and user experience

Experience qualifying or releasing software against multiple CPU architectures (x8664 and arm64/Apple silicon) including cross-compilation multi-arch artifacts and architecture-specific failure modesnExperience with hardware bring-up or qualification programs DVT/EVT-style validation pipelines software performance benchmarking burn-in and stress testingnExperience with virtualized and containerized runtime environments; operational knowledge of KubernetesnProficiency in Go and/or Python; comfort building services CLIs and web UIsnExperience with release safety practices: canaries progressive rollout automated rollback and release metricsnExperience with measuring analyzing and optimizing performance and efficiency for large-scale compute platformsnAbility to effectively communicate within a team and with project stakeholders