Apple

Cloud Network Software Engineer

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in developing and managing large-scale distributed services
  • Strong knowledge of operating systems and network fundamentals
  • Proven experience in API design and modern interface technologies
  • Expertise in systems programming, including concurrency and multi-threading
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and infrastructure as code practices

Responsibilities

  • Engage in the complete service lifecycle from design to deployment and operation
  • Ensure service quality through monitoring and performance improvements
  • Implement proactive designs to minimize risks during service operation
  • Lead blameless postmortem analysis to enhance incident response practices
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate services effectively

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits with an employer contribution
  • Discounts on Apple products and free services
  • Tuition reimbursement for education related to career advancement
  • Opportunity to participate in employee stock programs
Full Job Description
Join Apple's Cloud network Infrastructure team as a site reliability engineer to help support and scale cloud services.

The Apple Networking team builds software-defined cloud network infrastructure as a part of Apple Cloud. Our infrastructure is a critical foundation in delivering Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Maps) to billions of customers. We are a fast paced organization where drive and collaboration are the keys to success. Teams across Apple rely critically on us for infrastructure that help them build services that scale globally, are highly available, and "just work".

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for the cloud network services to maintain high availability, scale and resilience. The successful candidate is expected to be highly self-motivated with a passion for excellence, quality and detail.

Description

In this role, you will engage in the entire service lifecycle from product release, through to deployment, operation and refinement. Following are the key responsibilities

- As a part of launch readiness, support activities such as system design engineering, developing software tools and platforms, managing/planning capacity, and conducting launch reviews to ensure readiness

- Maintain service quality via monitoring and improving availability, performance and health.

- Proactive designs and process implementations to mitigate risk, reduce impact radius, incident detection and resolution times. Deliver on a sustainable incident response practices learning from experiences through blameless postmortems.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in driving service integrations, resolving dependencies and representing the service offerings.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience in crafting and operationalizing large scale distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant services

Experience with operating systems and network fundamentals

Experience in API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

Expert knowledge of API design and interface technologies

Strong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching

In depth knowledge of K8s, system virtualization, build systems and infrastructure as code

Strong record of leading large multi-functional projects

Outstanding communication skills with the ability to articulate concepts, designs and decisions.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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