Software Engineer - OS and System Services
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Software and Services
The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an outstanding software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers.
In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to use/ hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as kernel drivers, runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture.
We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems.
Be ready to make something phenomenal when you come here. Dynamic and industry-defining technologies are the norm at Apple. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with our products. The same real passion for innovation also applies to our business practices - strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
Description
You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design, SOC architects, and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests. You will occasionally go on-call to support the high quality software you deploy.
Minimum Qualifications
- Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C
- Solid operating system fundamentals
- Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
- Excellent communication skills
- Creative, collaborative, and product-focused
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to coach colleagues and give impactful feedback.
- Experience with event handling and multithreaded development.
- Committed to high quality, well-tested code.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Good grasp of system integration and management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA)
- Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar
- Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge
- Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools