Software Engineer - Darwin Server, Core OS

What you'll do

• Participate in software development from problem definition and design through implementation, testing, and debugging.
• Collaborate with client teams and Apple technology owners to build and adapt features for server environments.
• Develop technologies for server packaging, cloud integration, observability, and security or privacy.

What they ask for

• Experience with UNIX-like systems and strong understanding of operating systems architecture and systems programming fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Swift, C, Rust, or Go.
• Familiarity with operating system integration with cloud infrastructure, including provisioning and orchestration, application packaging, and observability or diagnostics.
• Experience developing system daemons or services, libraries, or designing APIs; BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge and experience.

Nice to have

• Experience building operating system infrastructure for cloud computing and practical understanding of security and trust principles.
• Systematic troubleshooting across the technology stack; involvement in open source communities such as Darwin, FreeBSD, or Linux.

Pay

USD 150,400–277,600 base salary

Tools

Swift, C, Rust, Go, launchd, cloud-init, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry

AI focus

Developing new security or privacy features to improve Private Cloud Compute, which powers Apple Intelligence.