Senior Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer
Apple
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 181,100-318,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Jan 21, 2026
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has 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, 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 highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in on our quest to build and enhance massive clusters hosting Virtual Machines, Containers and associated infrastructure that can scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offerings. You will join a team of world-class engineers working on core components that build a cloud platform, customize it to help fit Apple’s diverse needs. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users.
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. In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining distributed compute systems for cloud platforms. You will * Design, implement and optimize virtualized compute offerings on a wide variety of hardware types * Write and review code, generate and review design documentation - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and optimize for critical workloads * Tackle and resolve complex issues across accelerator, virtualization, and networking layers, ensuring robust performance, stability, and security * Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products
- At least 5+ years with Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering-related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in cloud platforms, specifically building large scale distributed systems
- Proven distributed systems and operating systems knowledge and experience applying it to build stable, performant, and secure execution environments
- Highly proficient in Golang and/or Java
- Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills.
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of advanced virtualization concepts, including nested virtualization, QEMU, VM live migration, and NUMA optimization
- Experience working on cloud storage solutions is a plus.
- Understanding of various storage solutions (iSCSI, NFS, cluster file systems)
- Experience in designing and developing highly scalable web API-based request processing systems (Spring, Kafka)
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