Apple

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in developing, operating, and optimizing cloud services and infrastructure.
  • Proficient in Java with a deep understanding of JVM optimization.
  • Experience in application performance analysis and efficiency tuning.
  • Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

  • Develop solutions to optimize software services and cloud infrastructure.
  • Analyze and architect complex technical solutions involving multiple technologies.
  • Monitor applications and infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical decisions and solutions.
  • Document best practices and create detailed operating procedures.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a highly skilled and passionate engineering team.
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technologies in a constantly changing field.
  • Professional growth opportunities within a leading tech company.
Full Job Description
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

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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Learn more about Apple
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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