Apple

Release Engineer, Internet Technologies

Apple$120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in release engineering, configuration management, or software engineering roles (DevOps, SRE, SDET, SWE, Build Engineer)
  • Proficiency with SCM systems (Git preferred), release engineering, and branching strategies
  • Strong skills in scripting languages: Python, Go, Bash, JavaScript
  • Ability to quickly adapt to new technical environments and solve complex problems
  • Experience with Unix/Terminal/Command Line/Bash

Responsibilities

  • Drive the delivery of popular Apple Apps like Messages, FaceTime, and Phone
  • Develop tools to enhance productivity for development and quality teams
  • Collaborate with various teams to improve integration and release processes
  • Automate workflows instead of performing tasks manually
  • Implement best practices to ensure software quality and reliability

Benefits

  • Work on high-impact applications used by millions
  • Engage in a culture that prioritizes privacy and security
  • Collaborative environment fostering communication and coordination
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and skill enhancement
Full Job Description
The Internet Technologies Operations Team is looking for a passionate and experienced Release Engineer that can help drive the delivery of some of the most popular Apps at Apple: Messages, FaceTime and Phone. As an engineer on this team, you will be directly responsible for beginning the process that delivers Apple Software to millions worldwide. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with experience using Continuous Integration systems and a passion for automation and software development processes. You will help develop tools to improve the productivity of the development and quality teams as well as collaborate with others at Apple to drive and improve the integration and release process. You should have a desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do everything by hand. If this opportunity matches your background and interests, please apply!

Description

Every day, millions of people connect via Messages, expressing and sharing with the people who matter most to them in many different ways. We are constantly adding new communication tools for iMessage, all with end-to-end encryption for both individual and group conversations. We believe privacy is a fundamental human right, and you'll incorporate this belief into everything we build.

Minimum Qualifications

2+ years of experience in a release engineering, configuration management, or software engineering role (DevOps, SRE, SDET, SWE, Build Engineer)

Expertise with SCM systems (git preferred), release engineering, branching strategies, pull requests, git workflows

Expertise with scripting languages like Python, Go, Bash, JavaScript The ability to adapt quickly to new technical environments and resolve sophisticated problems

Expertise working with engineering and project management teams, which requires strong communication and coordination skills

Experience with Unix/Terminal/Command Line/Bash

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to propose changes and improvements, and communicate system status automatically and efficiently in ways that incentivize process improvement.

Expertise in configuration management for deploying, configuring, and managing servers and systems.

Experience with databases (SQL, Non-rel)

Expertise with continuous integration systems (ex. Jenkins)

Familiarity with highly scalable distributed systems, parallel workflows and microservices.

Specific experience defining and driving data structures, APIs, or persistence layers for communication features

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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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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