Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cupertino,California,United States

Software and Services

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) compute team is building the next generation cloud compute services empowering Apple’s software developers to build the products our customers love. We're a fast paced, highly skilled team designing, developing and supporting the operation of a virtual machine and container-based compute platform that Apple’s developers use to build, test and deploy their products. Our web-scale system hosts Apple’s core cloud services and has to stay highly available, secure and “just work”. That's a tall order, and we're looking to add more talented and passionate engineers who love challenges. If you feel like you'd love to join this amazing team, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of software design and development experience in cloud service orchestration (API-based control plane) with an emphasis on “infrastructure-as-a-service” (compute, storage and network virtualization)

• Java proficiency with a track record of designing and developing highly scalable web API-based request processing systems (Spring, Kafka)

• Experience integrating with and extending Apache CloudStack is a plus, or general infrastructure automation experience

• Programming Linux system virtualization based on Libvirt, QEMU, KVM

• Understanding of various storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems)

• Understanding of various networking concepts (SDN, VXLAN, VPC networking, tap devices, multi queue networking)

• Security design at the host (process isolation), storage (encryption) and network (access control) level

Description

Enjoy working on reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance limits of infrastructure services. Be curious about how systems work and, more importantly, how they fail. A domain expert with expertise in multiple technical areas, used to designing major features and able to resolve highly complex issues creatively and effectively taking ownership of major features and technologies to demonstrate a significant impact within the organization. Approach complex issues with creativity, ready to take risks and course-correct effectively to produce an impact on the organization through broad implementation of new ideas. Drive ideas from inception to implementation establishing a reputation sought out throughout the organization for advice and consultation through setting standards, process and technical direction. Ready to actively mentor engineers at all levels.

Education & Experience

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $170,700.00 and $300,200.00, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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