Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026. Apple scores A on the Alion truth index.
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The Apple Service Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!
Apple Service Engineering (ASE)’s Compute team is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and enhance the way teams across Apple deploy their workloads on Kubernetes clusters. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Kubernetes with an emphasis on controllers and infrastructure to optimize efficiency while engaging with the upstream community to drive Apple’s requirements. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users.
Description
As part of the ASE Compute organization, you will:
* Partner with teams across Apple to develop features and functionality that enable Kubernetes clusters to meet their needs around container orchestration.
* Improve the scalability, availability, and performance of our services centered around Kubernetes
* Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth while ensuring customer satisfaction and smooth operations
* Partner with SRE to triage, investigate, and remediate production issues
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
Experience with Kueue, Yunikorn or related technologies to increase efficiency of Kubernetes clusters preferred
Highly proficient in Golang
Track record of owning technical design end-to-end - from design docs and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production
Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems