The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team is seeking an experienced software engineer to enhance the deployment of workloads on Kubernetes clusters. This role involves collaborating with teams across Apple to develop features that improve container orchestration. The focus is on optimizing the efficiency of Kubernetes while engaging with the upstream community. You will play a key role in building a platform that delivers applications at scale to end users.

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
• 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Highly proficient in Golang.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

• Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality that enable Kubernetes clusters to meet their needs around container orchestration.
• Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of 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.

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.