Apple

Sr Software Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10 years of software development experience, with a focus on scalable distributed control planes (4+ years).
  • In-depth knowledge of L3/L4 networking, including IPv4/IPv6 and DNS implementations.
  • Strong programming skills in GoLang, C, or Python, primarily in GoLang.
  • Understanding of concurrency patterns and high-performance code development.
  • Leadership in technical alignment and complexity breakdown for multi-cloud networking.
  • Experience diagnosing networking anomalies in High-Availability environments and developing telemetry for monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain services for virtualized networks and cloud infrastructures.
  • Innovate solutions to address unique challenges at a global scale.
  • Leverage expertise in distributed systems to enhance reliability and user experience.
  • Develop high-performance, scalable code that meets system demands.
  • Drive technical alignment across teams to ensure code quality and design integrity.
  • Monitor production systems for performance and reliability using telemetry.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a global infrastructure scale.
  • Innovative environment encouraging radical solutions.
  • Focus on building user-friendly and reliable systems.
  • Exposure to various technologies including distributed systems and modular programming.
Full Job Description
Description

We're looking for passionate folks who love building super-scalable, reliable, and user-friendly systems to support one of the world's biggest cloud infrastructures. You'll be designing, building, and running new services that help lead virtualized networks, computing, and storage. Working at our global scale brings some unique and tough challenges that require us to come up with radical innovations. These services are built using skills from different areas, like distributed systems, user experience, and modular and resilient programming. If you're excited about innovating and building systems from scratch for the massive scale of our infrastructure, then our team might be the perfect place for you!

Minimum Qualifications

10 years of hands-on experience in software development, with at least 4+ years focused on building highly scalable distributed control planes, cloud orchestration engines or software-defined networking (SDN) controllers

Deep working knowledge of L3/L4 networking - IPv4/IPv6, dual-stack, Routing, IPAM, NAT,

DNS implementations. Strong understanding of traffic steering, policy-based routing, and stateful connection tracking.

Strong proficiency in GoLang, C, or Python, with a willingness to work primarily in GoLang.

A solid understanding of concurrency patterns and writing high-performance code.

Demonstrated leadership in driving cross-functional technical alignment, breaking down

complex multi-cloud networking requirements, and fostering a culture of rigorous design and

code quality.

Proven track record of root-causing complex networking anomalies (split-brain scenarios, packet drops) within High-Availability (HA) environments, alongside a history of building robust telemetry and logging systems for production monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

Broad experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and micro-services architectures.

Hands-on experience managing cloud provider networking resources programmatically via APIs/

SDKs in at least one major cloud environment (AWS, GCP).

Proven experience defining the automation strategy, infrastructure-as-code paradigms

(Terraform/OpenTofu), and continuous deployment pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI) for complex

cloud environments.

Experience working with Linux network virtualization constructs (network namespaces, iptables/nftables, eBPF, routing tables), or developing custom network virtual appliances.

Experience in OVS, Container & Kube networking

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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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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