Infrastructure and Tools - Production Engineer
Apple
Other Engineering
San Diego, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 9, 2024
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200578302
Home Office: Yes
Our team is on a mission to provide innovative infrastructure and tools that impact engineers’ work by making software easier to create, build, test, and distribute. We believe that streamlining software engineering is an important part of unlocking developer creativity and innovation, and we enjoy when Apple customers see that in the products we ship. We are looking for an engineer to create software, systems, tools, and processes to ensure the products we build are reliable, resilient, effective, and efficient. Production engineers work closely with our product development teams to guide their service development and identify the most valuable areas to improve. We believe that every member of a team brings unique skills and perspective. Far more than any specific experience or skill, we are looking for technically hands-on engineers who want to ship reliable software and services that solve real-world problems and ultimately enable others to develop amazing applications. You would join a small, tight-knit group of engineers who build exciting new technology and have fun while doing so.
Description
Our team works on evolving a set of innovative tools and services that directly affect the productivity of Apple’s developers. You’ll develop software to make it easier and more effective for teams to run their services reliably at scale. You’ll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established techniques related to large-scale cloud services, enabling developers to work efficiently at a high standard of quality. By working with teams and services across the organization, you’ll help to shape their best practices and decide which projects you can deliver next for the greatest impact. Your code will help to improve existing services while blazing new paths working with Apple’s technology stack. You will be most successful here as a flexible and proactive engineer who thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and challenging problems to tackle. You bring energy and a desire to learn into our existing small group. You work well across teams to create solutions that work for everyone. In your role as a production engineer on our team you will: Build and maintain scalable and reliable systems that meet the needs of our customers. Develop software tools to help teams at Apple run reliable services in domains including production observability, deployments, and overload protection. Collaborate with development teams to identify and address system bottlenecks, performance issues, resource inefficiencies, scalability concerns, and opportunities for automation. Engage with other teams to establish long term relationships that include knowledge sharing. Develop expertise and be given ownership over components critical to Apple’s success. Help to design new ways to scale Apple’s distributed developer tools and services to ever increasing problem sizes. Have access to the engineers who create Apple’s full technology, tools, and operating systems stack.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience in services or systems software development (e.g. in Golang, Rust, etc.)
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Positive and respectful attitude in a diverse environment.
- Exposure to distributed systems design and desire to grow in the space.
- Ability to shift between engineering disciplines such as distributed systems, UIs, data pipelines, batch processing, etc.
- Interest in tools and systems that support developing, building, testing, and releasing software.
- Interest in solving developer productivity needs using new programming languages, software stacks, and hardware architectures.
- Experience working closely with other developers to fit projects to their needs.
- Launch fast and iterate approach to building software.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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