Software Engineer, System Services

Seattle Until 9/22/2026 4+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

The Apple Cloud Engineering team is looking for an exceptional software engineer to build and integrate software to orchestrate workloads across highly performant and energy efficient systems that will power the next generation of data centers. In this highly collaborative role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to utilize hardware acceleration for machine learning and high performance computing workloads. You will be part of a team that builds and maintains system software such as runtime libraries, frameworks, and daemons that will power the next generations of data centers. You will partner with teams across Apple to adapt, tailor, and scale software on a novel compute platform and will help to build the foundation of our future cloud architecture. We are looking for someone with proven mastery building and managing scalable, resilient systems. You should have a strong mix of education and practical experience with a real passion for diving head first into challenging problems.

Description

You will work cross-functionally with architecture, platform design and software teams to develop and integrate best in class hardware, software and services. You will be responsible for building and maintaining system infrastructure that powers next generation of data centers. You will ensure high quality and agility with unit tests, integration tests and performance tests.

You are the right match if:

You possess strong skills in software design and programming.
You are passionate about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs.
You have strong problem-solving skills.
You are skilled at the art of communicating and enjoy it

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years of software engineering experience
Proficiency in one of C/C++, Obj-C
Passion for software architecture, APIs, and high performance extensible software
Excellent communication skills
Creative, collaborative, and product-focused
Comfortable diving deep, working across multiple levels of abstraction

Preferred Qualifications

Good grasp of system integration and management (configuration management, software deployment, OTA)
Experience with cloud orchestration engines such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Apache Mesos, or similar
Good understanding of microservice topologies and deployment patterns in the cloud and/or edge
Experience with Swift, Objective-C and Apple development tools
Knowledge of OS architecture, and low-level system components.

About this role

Summary

Develop and maintain system software for energy-efficient data centers and cloud workloads.

Job title

Software Engineer, System Services

Experience level

4+ years

Minimum experience

4+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Seattle; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

CC++APIssystem integrationsoftware deployment

Preferred skills

cloud orchestrationKubernetesSwiftOS architecture

Specializations

system softwarecloud infrastructurehigh performance computinghardware acceleration
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Seattle, WA, USA

Work arrangement unknown City