Software Development Engineer (Developer Experience and Platform Tools)

Envision your potential here at Apple, where fresh concepts swiftly transform

into extraordinary products. Bring your passion and dedication to your role, and

there's no limit to what we can achieve together. We're seeking a diligent and

enthusiastic individual to join our exceptional team, and if that's you, we'd

love to hear from you! The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team is responsible

for the systems and infrastructure that drive Apple's services, including

iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, Siri, and Maps, amongst others. Apple's unique

integration of hardware, software, and services means you'll collaborate with

top-tier engineers from various disciplines to design and deliver products our

customers adore. Our services must scale globally, remain highly available, and

"just work." The ASE Compute team is looking for a software engineer to own the

tooling that lets our internal cloud compute platforms ship quickly and safely.

You will own and evolve our platform qualification and test automation service —

the system that decides whether a hardware or software release is fit for

production — and own the CI/CD and release engineering practice for software

that powers multiple internal compute platforms. This is a builder role: you'll

write the tools, define the release pipelines, and then work with platform, SRE,

and hardware engineering teams to qualify new server generations and OS releases

across both x86 and Apple silicon server architectures. If you like being the

catalyst who makes a magnitude of other engineers faster, and are excited about

the idea of differentiating "the tests passed" and "we know this release is

good," this is the role.

DESCRIPTION

In this role, as part of the ASE Compute Organization, you will: * Own and

develop our platform qualification and test automation service end to end —

architecture, code, API, data model, and supporting UI — growing it into the

authoritative signal for release readiness across our compute fleet * Own CI/CD

and release engineering for systems that lay foundation of multiple compute

platforms — design the pipelines, promotion gates, artifact and versioning

strategy, and rollout mechanics that take a change from commit to production

across many sites * Drive software qualification for hardware and software

releases, including new server generations and OS/firmware releases on both x86

and Apple Silicon. Define what "qualified" means, automate the evidence for it,

and shorten the qualification cycle from weeks to days * Write and review code,

generate and review design documentation * Enjoy working on scalability,

resilience, security, efficiency, and performance limits of infrastructure

services. Be curious about how systems work and, more importantly, how they fail

* Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and

course-correct effectively to impact the success of the platform * Participate

in on-call rotation and partner with the SRE team to triage, investigate, and

resolve production issues * Partner with hardware/software engineering, OS, and

platform teams across Apple to make qualification a first-class, automated part

of every release

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent related experience.

Demonstrated ability to design, debug, and test complex software systems 3+

years of experience in related software development (or comparable academic

experience) Experience designing and building CI/CD systems, build/release

pipelines, or developer tooling used by other engineering teams Experience with

test automation at scale: designing test frameworks, managing test

infrastructure, and producing release signal engineers and other teams can trust

Strong fundamentals of operating systems, and comfort (or curiosity) debugging

at the OS and hardware boundary Familiarity with all aspects of software

development, from architecture to deployment and maintenance Quick learner and

contributor to new code bases Customer-focused thinking and strong

problem-solving skills with attention to detail Excellent verbal and written

communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners

across different time zones Enthusiasm about upholding Apple’s standards in

product quality, design, and user experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience qualifying or releasing software against multiple CPU architectures

(x86_64 and arm64/Apple silicon), including cross-compilation, multi-arch

artifacts, and architecture-specific failure modes Experience with hardware

bring-up or qualification programs — DVT/EVT-style validation pipelines,

software performance benchmarking, firmware/BMC/BIOS interaction, burn-in and

stress testing Experience with virtualized and containerized runtime

environments; operational knowledge of Kubernetes Proficiency in Go and/or

Python; comfort building services, CLIs, and web UIs Experience with release

safety practices: canaries, progressive rollout, automated rollback, and release

metrics Experience with measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance and

efficiency for large-scale compute platforms Ability to effectively communicate

within a team and with project stakeholders