CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer - Compute

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Build and enhance compute infrastructure (VM lifecycle management and bare metal) to scale Apple's services (iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, Maps) globally.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure)

Builds

Production and non-production compute environments for Apple's Cloud Platform

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

VM orchestration, bare metal provisioning, cloud infrastructure scaling, distributed systems, OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Infrastructure as Code

Preferred skills

Planet-scale operations, multi-tenant managed services, Chef, Ansible, Terraform

Responsibilities

Design VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning solutions; operate and triage production compute environments; automate deployment and orchestration; leverage AI for operational insights and tooling; participate in on-call rotations; support partner teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC