# Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team builds the container and virtualization runtime technology that powers Apple's next-generation compute platform. We're a fast-moving, highly skilled team of systems engineers designing and developing the virtualization-based runtimes that run Virtual Machines and Linux Containers across our data center, with privacy, security, and performance as first-class requirements. We're starting a new team focused on one question: how do we patch the node software across our datacenter fleet faster, and more often, with minimal impact to the workloads running on it? We're looking for a domain expert to decide the approach and then build and lead the team that delivers it. Description Today, updating a node's software means choosing between speed and workload impact. This team's job is to remove that tradeoff, so we can patch the fleet faster and more often with minimal impact on users. We have not chosen an approach. Live migration, snapshot and restore, kexec-based host updates, live patching, and in-place upgrade of the runtime and VMM are all options, and a different approach may fit better than any of them. We are looking for an expert to decide

- **Id**: 4041286
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-senior-software-engineer-apple-services-engineering-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T19:53:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:13:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

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- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

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- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 358
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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- **Hyper-V** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Xen** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

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- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T22:13:46Z

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- **Label**: Hiring now
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- **Expected fill days**: 122
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- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:26:49Z

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