The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team is looking for an experienced software engineer to enhance Kubernetes deployment across Apple. This role involves collaborating with teams to develop features that improve container orchestration. The engineer will focus on optimizing the scalability, availability, and performance of services centered around Kubernetes. Additionally, the position requires engaging with the upstream community to align Apple's requirements with core Kubernetes components.

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience.
• Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn, or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters preferred.
• 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.