Apple
Senior Software Engineer - Compute
$175K–$325K
Cupertino, California +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.
About the job
Build and operate Apple’s compute infrastructure, focusing on VM lifecycle management, bare metal provisioning, and scalable cloud platform operations.
What you'll do
- Design and implement VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning; automate compute infrastructure deployment and routine processes.
- Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot production and non-production compute environments, including on-call incident response.
- Develop runbooks and operational procedures, collaborate with partner teams, and use AI to build tools and gain insight across large systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
- 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.
- Strong experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems; experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes.
- Highly proficient in Go or Python; experienced with highly distributed unix systems.
Nice to have
- Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting at a planet scale; experience operating large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service.
- Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary; $175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
OpenStack, KVM, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Chef, Ansible, Terraform
AI focus
Use AI to gain insight across large systems and build production tools that accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure operations.
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