Job Description

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.



We're looking for a driven but adaptable developer, working primarily in Go, with some Swift, and dipping into other languages like Python or Bash as necessary, to help build a powerful platform that enables internal engineers to deliver incredible experiences to end-customers.



Our team's device cloud offers thousands of real and virtual Apple devices spanning hundreds of different hardware configurations, for use as remote development devices from desk and for automated testing in CI. Leveraging our device-centric API, engineers can use devices for purposes such as low-level hardware bring-up using custom firmware and kernels, validating ML model performance on released hardware, all the way to automating the UI with XCTest to validate Apple's cloud services.



Join us to solve problems spanning maintaining a highly available fleet of thousands of Apple devices, constructing complex overlay networks and even SoC or USB debugging, all with the quality expected of Apple - to make this platform just work, like magic, every time!

Description

Apple's device cloud team has an immediate opening for a software engineer working primarily in Go who will:



Collaborate across functions to maintain a fleet of Apple devices numbering in the thousands

Improve the functionality, observability, scalability, availability, usability, security, and performance of our services & infrastructure

Adapt cloud technologies and industry best practices to solve challenges unique to Apple workloads

Triage, investigate, and remediate production issues

Preferred Qualifications

Languages: Golang, Swift, C, C++, Objective-C, Python, Java, Scala, shell

RPC libraries and protocols: protobuf, gRPC

Cloud technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Envoy proxy

Automation technologies: Ansible, Pkl, WebDriver

Experience with IoT or other embedded development

Minimum Qualifications

In depth of experience in software development and a passion for software engineering

Experience designing or working with web services (HTTP+JSON, gRPC, etc.)

An understanding of Networks and Networking Protocols

Experience with, or interest in, Go

Troubleshooting distributed systems and networking issues



At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law. Learn more