Software Engineer (Devops), Retail Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
Software and Services
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The Mobile Apps & Messaging Platforms team is responsible for delivering iOS apps that globally set the standard for customer experience and showcase Apple's revolutionary hardware and iOS technologies. You’ll be joining a team of world class engineers and interacting on a daily basis with teams that span across Apple including iOS software and hardware engineering, Apple Store Online and Apple Retail.
We are looking for a talented and dedicated senior engineer to join our team to bring passion for infrastructure and distributed systems to build world-class data platforms/products at a very large scale across cloud environments. You will be a key owner of products and tools and be responsible for delivering industry grade, quality solutions and their lifecycles for both internal and third party cloud.
Description
We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer who is passionate about operational excellence through automation and engineering processes. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless integration of development and operations processes, to deliver best in class and highly available systems.
You will work with the application development teams to understand infrastructure requirements, while promoting efficiency, scalability, security, and reliability throughout the software lifecycle. Your expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and infrastructure management will be crucial to the success of our projects.
You love building system software, solving what is sometimes thought to be impossible problems, and you have a deep passion for the customer experience. You will go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically, and adapt quickly to new technical areas.
Minimum Qualifications
- Working experience operating and developing infrastructure and services in public cloud environments (AWS, or GCP).
- Working experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent.
- Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Golang and Rust.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years experience operating and developing infrastructure and services in public cloud environments (AWS, or GCP).
- 2+ years experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent.
- 2+ years proficiency with Helm and Kustomize for managing Kubernetes applications and configurations through GitOps practices
- 2+ years experience with configuration management or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Crossplane is desired.
- Experience working with Cloud Native software to architect innovative solutions. Making upstream contributions back to have a meaningful and positive impact on the ecosystem.
- Strong knowledge of Linux in respect to security, networking, filesystem I/O, process modeling, and compute resource management.
- Excellent problem solving skills, possessing the ability to communicate with the team on triage, remediation, root cause, and possible long term improvements.
- Should be highly proactive with a keen focus on improving the uptime availability of our mission-critical services
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to collaborate cross-functionally with program managers and engineering partners
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment while continuously evaluating emerging technologies
- Familiarity with logging and observability technologies such as Open telemetry and Prometheus or similar
- Validated software engineering experience and field in design, testing, source code management, and CI/CD practices.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience developing apps
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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