Apple
Senior Software Engineer - Compute
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- 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 compute infrastructure for Apple services, with a focus on VM lifecycle management, bare metal provisioning, and AI-assisted SRE operations.
What you'll do
- Design and implement VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a distributed environment; automate infrastructure deployment and routine processes.
- Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot production and non-production compute environments, including on-call response.
- Create alert procedures and runbooks, collaborate with partner teams, and use AI to develop production 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
- Advanced Degree.
- Experience at planet scale or with large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service; expert-level proficiency with Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
OpenStack, KVM, Kubernetes, Go, Python, unix, Chef, Ansible
AI focus
Use AI to gain insight across large systems and build production tools for SRE workflows and infrastructure operations, including triage and operational automation.
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