Software Engineer - OS and System Services

Job Description

The Apple Cloud System Software Team is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to optimize and maintain the core infrastructure of data center environments.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in C/C++, Obj-C, or Swift
• Strong knowledge of OS architecture and low-level system components
• Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high-performance extensible software

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize OS-level components for data center infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve performance, security, and resource efficiency across distributed systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve low-level OS issues, networking bottlenecks, and hardware-software integration challenges
• Contribute to the development of automation, monitoring, and diagnostic tools to improve system reliability
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions related to OS-level services
• Stay up to date with emerging OS technologies, virtualization, and containerization trends in data center environments
• Develop and optimize accelerator passthrough, sharing, and virtualization mechanisms for AI/ML workloads
• Improve hypervisor-level support for virtualized AI accelerators
• Enhance performance, isolation, and resource allocation for accelerators in virtualized environments