Senior Systems Engineer- Apple Services Engineering

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, AMP, 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!

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Systems Engineering team is seeking a highly
motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in
designing, building tools, and supporting large-scale infrastructure systems that can
scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offering.

You will collaborate with world-class engineers to design, implement, and support operating system technologies that support large-scale Linux systems. We address complex problems
using both open-source and in-house tooling to support security and business
initiatives. You will contribute to our team’s initiative to promote automation and self-
service tools for service democratization and enforcing responsibilities with respective
app teams.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of overall industry experience in systems engineering with focus on cloud computing
5+ years of experience managing enterprise services in a large-scale *nix environment
Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure as a managed service
Understanding of cloud computing architectures, systems design and performance optimization
Extensive Linux experience, especially with Oracle Linux, CentOS etc, in addition to a good understanding of Linux systems administration
Experience with revision control systems like GitHub, CI/CD unit testing, and configuration management systems
Automation and configuration management skills using Puppet, Ansible, with a passion for automating things rather than doing them twice
Hands on experience in Python, and/or Go with large installment systems
Skilled at working cross-functionally to achieve project success
Desire to build, grow and mentor a team
Strong philosophy of continuous improvement
Strong sense of ownership wanting to understand how things work and resolve root causes
Ability to encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency across teams
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operational load via software
Self-motivated, inquisitive, and always looking to learn more
Experience with hosting services in container environments
Information Security and Regulatory Compliance knowledge
Must be an expert and have in-depth professional experience with cloud operations, with a focus on “infrastructure-as-a-service” (compute, storage, and network virtualization)