Apple

Software Engineer - Compute Networking

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

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of system software development experience, or MS in Computer Science
  • Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals
  • Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN) and overlay networking protocols
  • Understanding of REST APIs and gRPC APIs, along with distributed programming concepts
  • Fluency in Go (Golang) in a systems context
  • Strong grasp of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts
  • Excellent communication skills and problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with teams within and across organizations
  • Design, implement, and debug software components
  • Write and review code, and generate design documentation
  • Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters
  • Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues
  • Maintain high quality standards expected of Apple products

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud technologies
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Focus on quality and user experience
  • Access to Apple's renowned hardware and software architecture
  • Potential for professional growth and development within a leading tech company
Full Job Description
The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is responsible for building powerful platforms that enable engineers to deliver incredible experiences to customers.

Our compute team is responsible for designing and building the foundational pieces of our in-house cloud technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to build reliable, high-performance compute infrastructure focused on networking. We are seeking a candidate who is highly motivated, with strong technical and communication skills to create intuitive user experiences, who is passionate about quality, and has a keen eye for the details that surprise and delight our customers.

Join this team, and you'll help us create and deploy network systems that support Apple’s world-renowned hardware and software architecture.

Description

In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging, deploying and maintaining Apple cloud's software defined network solutions for various compute platforms. You will

* Closely collaborate with teams within and across organizations

* Design, implement, and debug software components

* Write and review code, generate and review design documentation - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters

* Benchmark, analyze and improve scale, performance and resiliency issues

* Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products

Minimum Qualifications

BS with 2+ years of experience in system software development or MS in Computer Science

Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals.

Experience with SDN, Overlay networking protocols.

Understanding of Rest APIs / gRPC APIs and a grasp of distributed program concepts.

Fluency in Go (Golang) in a systems context

Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems concepts.

Ability to effectively communicate within a team and with project stakeholders

Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills

Enthusiastic about quality, design, and user experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with accelerated networking software like DPDK, OVS , FD.io or FRR.

Understanding of network protocols BGP, VxLAN

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with using and building cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, CloudStack or OpenStack

Experience building software solutions in Java, C/C++, Python

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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