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Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Apple

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/8/2026

Compensation

Not listed

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Job description

The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance compute infrastructure for Apple's services. This role focuses on ensuring that services scale effectively to meet the demands of Apple's offerings. You will work with a team of world-class engineers on core components of Apple's Cloud Platform, emphasizing VM lifecycle management and bare metal infrastructure. The position offers opportunities to leverage AI-assisted automation to improve operational workflows and infrastructure tooling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
  • Advanced Degree preferred.
  • 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies, and Kubernetes.
  • Highly proficient in Go or Python.
  • Experienced with highly distributed Unix systems.
  • Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting at a planet scale.
  • Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance compute infrastructure to support Apple's services.
  • Ensure services scale to meet the demands of Apple's offerings.
  • Collaborate with multiple engineering teams and mentor others.
  • Solve problems through AI-assisted automation.
  • Develop and leverage AI tools to accelerate triage and operational workflows.

Benefits

  • 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.

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