Lead Infrastructure Software Engineer

Requirements

• Proven experience as a backend internet services software engineer in a high-level language such as Golang (preferred), C++, Java, or Python.
• Successful track-record and proven experience of leading projects from design to launch, using business needs to determine velocity and scope.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading concepts and design of highly concurrent and distributed applications.
• Understanding of distributed system concepts including the CAP Theorem, microservices, and self-healing architectures.
• Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration, testing methodologies, TDD, and agile development.
• Understanding of infrastructure foundational concepts such as containerization, virtualization, and agents.

Nice to Haves

• Experience participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident review processes for production services.
• Experience with development within the Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework and controllers.
• Exposure to structured or unstructured storage or caching layers such as Cassandra, Redis, or Memcache.
• Experience with large-scale server orchestration (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell, Cloudstack).
• Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular or JQuery.
• Exposure to cloud services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront/Steps or equivalent).
• Exposure to server bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing).
• Exposure to configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and supporting new and existing critical infrastructural systems and frameworks.
• Creating API-driven services with precision, delightful features, and resilient designs.
• Impacting hundreds of millions of users and being essential to the success of Apple features.

Perks and Benefits

• Significant individual responsibility and influence over the direction of the core platform.
• Opportunity to work on next-generation platform that powers Apple's infrastructural services.