Senior Systems Engineer- Apple Services Engineering

Summary

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, AMP, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Systems Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in designing, building tools, and supporting large-scale infrastructure systems that can scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offering. You will collaborate with world-class engineers to design, implement, and support operating system technologies that support large-scale Linux systems. We address complex problems using both open-source and in-house tooling to support security and business initiatives. You will contribute to our team’s initiative to promote automation and self- service tools for service democratization and enforcing responsibilities with respective app teams.

Minimum Qualifications

•10+ years of overall industry experience in systems engineering with focus on cloud computing • 5+ years of experience managing enterprise services in a large-scale *nix environment • Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure as a managed service • Understanding of cloud computing architectures, systems design and performance optimization • Extensive Linux experience, especially with Oracle Linux, CentOS etc, in addition to a good understanding of Linux systems administration • Experience with revision control systems like GitHub, CI/CD unit testing, and configuration management systems • Automation and configuration management skills using Puppet, Ansible, with a passion for automating things rather than doing them twice • Hands on experience in Python, and/or Go with large installment systems • Skilled at working cross-functionally to achieve project success • Desire to build, grow and mentor a team • Strong philosophy of continuous improvement • Strong sense of ownership wanting to understand how things work and resolve root causes • Ability to encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency across teams • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operational load via software • Self-motivated, inquisitive, and always looking to learn more • Experience with hosting services in container environments • Information Security and Regulatory Compliance knowledge • Must be an expert and have in-depth professional experience with cloud operations, with a focus on “infrastructure-as-a-service” (compute, storage, and network virtualization)