Apple
Senior Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency Engineering
$175K–$325K
Cupertino, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
About the job
Partners with engineering teams to model infrastructure demand and improve the capacity, performance, and efficiency of large-scale cloud services.
What you'll do
- Analyze application architectures and workloads to translate demand into measurable infrastructure requirements and forecasts.
- Develop tools, automation, and standards that improve resource visibility, capacity validation, and efficiency.
- Drive technical and operational improvements while aligning infrastructure decisions with engineering and business teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience developing, operating, or architecting large-scale distributed services and infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering skills and proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and observability and telemetry.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in capacity planning, demand forecasting, resource management, or infrastructure optimization.
- Experience with Kubernetes, FinOps, or applying GenAI, LLMs, or other emerging technologies to engineering workflows.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $324,800 base salary; USD $175,000 to $308,500 base salary
Tools
Java, Python, Go, Kubernetes
AI focus
Preferred experience applying GenAI, LLMs, or other emerging technologies to build intelligent automation, derive insights from complex systems, and improve engineering workflows at scale.
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