Apple
Software Development Engineer (Developer Experience and Platform Tools)
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in related software development, or comparable academic experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Build and own platform qualification, test automation, CI/CD, and release engineering tools that help Apple’s internal compute platforms ship safely across server architectures.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve the platform qualification and test automation service, including its architecture, code, API, and data model.
- Design CI/CD pipelines, release gates, artifact/versioning strategies, and rollout mechanisms for multiple compute platforms.
- Qualify hardware and software releases across x86 and Apple silicon, and partner with engineering and SRE teams on production issues.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated ability to design, debug, and test complex software systems.
- 3+ years of related software development experience, or comparable academic experience.
- Experience building CI/CD systems, release pipelines, or developer tooling for engineering teams.
- Experience with test automation at scale, including test frameworks, infrastructure, and trusted release signals.
Nice to have
- Experience qualifying software across x86_64 and arm64/Apple silicon; hardware bring-up or qualification programs.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Go and/or Python, release safety practices, or compute platform performance optimization.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
x86, Apple Silicon, x86_64, arm64/Apple silicon, Kubernetes, Go, Python
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