About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Apple is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to develop solutions to optimize software services, cloud infrastructure and platforms for maximum efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness while ensuring reliability and scalability across diverse workloads. Our team is responsible for developing service and infrastructure architecture solutions for mission-critical services. This is a hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in analyzing and optimizing applications and infrastructure.

DESCRIPTION This position requires practical knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, operations, Fin-Ops practices and cloud technologies. You will be joining a team of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers working on this leading-edge and constantly changing space. Successful candidates will have strong engineering and communication skills, as well as the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the company.

You should have a real passion for quality, technical excellence, and an ability to understand complex systems. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years of experience developing, operating and optimizing services and infrastructure in third party cloud and private cloud data center environments Ability to analyze, architect and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies, application stack layers (app, data, network, compute)and cloud services Experience with analyzing and tuning applications for performance, efficiency and cost optimization Experience with monitoring tools, including metrics collection, dashboard creation and log analytics Proficient with Java with a deep understanding of JVM and optimization techniques for performance and efficiency Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Solid understanding of Fin-Ops & infrastructure business operations, including billing, cost management, data center capacity management, finance, licensing Expert in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc.

Experience with cloud native application architectures, including container orchestration Kubernetes, data technologies and traffic management Demonstrated competence with GenAI and various LLMs for use in software development and analytic use cases Proficient in programming languages such as Python/Java/Go for automation or integration with APIs Strong project management skills, including excellent presentation development Influential - ability to influence teams and leaders across the company to achieve your vision Passion for evangelizing technologies

Which skills does this role require?

Distributed systemsCloud infrastructureJVM optimizationPerformance tuningMonitoring toolsMetrics collectionLog analyticsCloud native architectureCloud EfficiencyDistributed SystemsJVMPerformance TuningMonitoringMetricsLog AnalyticsSoftware EngineeringScalabilityReliabilityCost OptimizationArchitectureCloud ServicesTechnical ExcellenceCross-functional Collaboration

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