Apple
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Build and improve Kubernetes platform components and infrastructure that help Apple teams deploy workloads efficiently and reliably at scale.
What you'll do
- Develop Kubernetes features and functionality with teams across Apple.
- Improve scalability, availability, and performance of Kubernetes-centered services.
- Partner with SRE to investigate and remediate production issues.
What they ask for
- Strong experience building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
- Highly proficient in Golang.
- End-to-end technical design ownership, from design documents and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase Kubernetes cluster efficiency.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Pay
USD $175,000 to USD $308,500 base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Golang, Kueue, Yunikorn
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