Apple
Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Engineering
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate system software and infrastructure for Apple’s next-generation data centers, including secure container-based releases and cloud workload orchestration.
What you'll do
- Design and operate secure, privacy-preserving software releases and tooling for container lifecycles.
- Improve deployment automation and CI/CD, and debug production issues in distributed cloud systems.
- Build and maintain data-center system infrastructure; contribute to architecture, reviews, and testing.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software development experience building and managing cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong engineering skills in Pkl or a similar configuration language; knowledge of operating system architecture and low-level system components.
- Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes or Nomad, production cloud services or infrastructure, and Linux system components.
Nice to have
- Experience with Swift, Objective-C, and Apple development tools.
- Familiarity with OCI image and runtime specs, runc, Linux namespaces, cgroups, and overlay filesystems.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (base salary range).
Tools
Pkl, Kubernetes, Nomad, Linux, systemd, cgroups, eBPF, Docker
AI focus
The role supports hardware-accelerated machine learning workloads; no AI model development is specified.
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