Job Description
Summary
Description
We are looking for a strong and enthusiastic developer to join us! This person will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform of many critical Apple internet services takes for years to come. You are someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineer’s work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar field.
- Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software developer.
- Deep understanding of multi-threading concepts and design of highly concurrent applications.
- Understanding of distributed system concepts including: the CAP Theorem, micro-services, and the Twelve Factor App.
- Strong ability to identify and prioritize core features.
- Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration, testing methodologies, TDD and agile development methodologies.
- Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages like Golang (preferred), Java, Python, Ruby or equivalent.
- Understanding of base internet infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, LDAP, server virtualization, server monitoring.
Preferred Qualifications
- GPU knowledge.
- Experience with large scale server provisioning and maintenance (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell).
- Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework, controllers and CRDs.
- Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular or JQuery.
- Experience with network debugging to identify issues between services.
- Some exposure to hardware bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing).
- Some exposure to structured or unstructured storage and caching.
- Some exposure to automating operations processes via services and tools.
- Some exposure to configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or others.
- Some exposure to cloud services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront/Steps).