Apple

Software Development Engineer - MultiCloud

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with production systems
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Go with clean coding practices
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including deployment and troubleshooting
  • Familiarity with major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
  • Understanding of reliability concepts in engineering and operational processes
  • Exposure to observability technologies such as Prometheus or Grafana
  • Knowledge of distributed systems concepts and analytics tools like SQL

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and tools
  • Build and enhance cloud platform capabilities for production environments
  • Deploy and troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes
  • Develop automation to simplify deployment and operational tasks
  • Apply reliability engineering practices to enhance system performance and availability
  • Analyze operational data for insights into system behavior and improvements
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to address technical challenges

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development within a collaborative environment
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and practices like AI/ML
  • Flexible work arrangements that promote work-life balance
  • Access to resources for continuous learning
  • Involvement in diverse and innovative projects across various domains
Full Job Description
We're looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join our team and help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud platforms and services. In this role, you'll develop software and automation that support production systems, Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure, observability, analytics, and emerging AI/ML workloads.

You'll combine software engineering skills with reliability engineering principles to improve how our platforms are built, deployed, monitored, and operated. You'll work alongside experienced engineers, architects, SREs, and AI/ML teams to solve technical challenges and continuously improve our systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong software engineering foundation, enjoys solving problems through code and automation, and is interested in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, reliability engineering, analytics, and AI.

Description

Software Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain software, services, APIs, tools, and automation using languages such as Python and Go.

Cloud & Platform Engineering: Build and improve cloud-native services and platform capabilities across production and non-production environments.

Kubernetes: Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications and services running on Kubernetes.

Develop automation that simplifies deployment and platform operations.

Reliability: Apply reliability engineering practices to improve system availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Automation: Identify repetitive operational activities and develop software and automation to reduce manual effort and operational toil.

Observability: Use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts to understand system behavior, troubleshoot issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Analytics: Analyze operational and application data to identify trends, anomalies, recurring issues, and performance bottlenecks. Develop dashboards and reporting that provide actionable insights.

AI/ML Infrastructure: Support infrastructure and platform capabilities for AI/ML training, LLM inference, and GPU-based workloads. Develop automation to simplify deployment and operation of these environments.

AI-Assisted Engineering: Explore and apply LLMs and AI technologies to improve software development, troubleshooting, analytics, automation, and operational workflows.

Scale & Resilience: Participate in capacity planning, performance testing, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises.

Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, developer experience, automation, and operational processes.

Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and runbooks.

Collaboration: Work closely with software engineering, platform, SRE, QA, AI/ML, security, architecture, and program management teams.

Minimum Qualifications

Software Engineering: Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and experience developing and maintaining production software, services, tools, or automation.

Programming: Proficiency in Python and/or Go (Golang), with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Kubernetes: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containers, including deploying and troubleshooting applications. Familiarity with Helm, Kustomize, or similar tools is preferred.

Cloud: Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

Infrastructure as Code: Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, or similar infrastructure automation technologies.

Reliability Engineering: Understanding of reliability concepts such as monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, and automation.

Observability: Experience with or exposure to technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar observability platforms.

Analytics: Ability to analyze system and application data to identify trends and troubleshoot issues. Familiarity with SQL, Python-based data analysis, dashboards, or reporting tools is a plus.

Distributed Systems: Working knowledge of distributed system concepts including availability, scalability, networking, fault tolerance, and performance.

Preferred Qualifications

AI/ML: Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, LLMs, model inference, or GPU workloads is a plus. Prior AI/ML infrastructure experience is beneficial but not required.

Problem Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with an interest in solving problems through software and automation.

Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within cross-functional engineering teams.

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.

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