Software Engineer
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Bavaria, Germany
You will play a key role in developing, debugging and maintaining software to operate a large scale compute platform. Your duties will include:
- Close collaboration with teams within and across organizations to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform
Writing software to automate operations processes by developing services and tools
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and highly available services that support Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Developing configuration management, and fleet orchestration solutions powered via Ansible, Puppet, or others
- Supervising on-server system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve efficiency
- Conducting root cause analysis for on-server system failures and implementing preventive measures
- Writing and reviewing code, as well as generating and reviewing design documentation
- Participating in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters
- Participating in a business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution
- Familiarity with the mechanics behind infrastructure management
- Familiarity with node management systems like Ansible, Puppet or similar solutions
- User-centred thinking and strong problem solving skills with attention to detail
- Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating systems (macOS and Linux) administration and troubleshooting.
- Experience with large scale server provisioning and maintenance
- Proficiency in Swift, Python, or similar languages in a systems context
- Strong proficiency in Linux/Unix internals, administration, and troubleshooting
- Operational knowledge of Kubernetes clusters
- Solid understanding of networking protocols
- Proven experience in systems software development