Software Engineer - Kubernetes
Seattle, Washington, United States
Software and Services
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The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). Apple’s uniquely seamless hardware, software and services integration means that you will get to work with world-class engineers from a variety of disciplines to design and deliver products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering, and running systems that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!
Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance Kubernetes offerings and interrelated services to leverage and support Apple technologies. You will work on core components of Kubernetes and engage with upstream community to drive Apple’s requirements. You will partner with internal application teams to understand their requirements and co-design operating system features and datacenter infrastructure to meet your needs.
Description
As part of the ASE Compute organization, you will:
- Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality that enable Kubernetes clusters to meet their needs around container orchestration and general compute infrastructure
- Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services centered around Kubernetes
- Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth while ensuring customer satisfaction and smooth operations
- Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues
Minimum Qualifications
Key Qualifications
- Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
- Highly proficient in Golang
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience
Additional Requirements
- Additional skills that are a plus:
- - Prior work on diverse hardware and operating systems
- - Swift programming and familiarity with Apple frameworks and tooling
Pay & Benefits
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