Senior Build and Release Engineer, Apple Services Engineering

We are looking for an experienced Build and Release Engineer to help develop and maintain the next-generation of Apple's cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on CloudKit, Apple's foundational privacy-focused database platform, which securely stores users' data and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices.

CloudKit manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and extremely scalable. CloudKit is a platform designed to the highest standards of user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications, but it is also the storage foundation for Apple's signature cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third party applications!

We are a world-class team who has a real passion for engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple's customers. As a key member of a versatile organization, you will build and maintain the frameworks, tooling, pipelines, and infrastructure that enable our engineers ship great software with speed and confidence., We are looking for engineers who have exceptional expertise in build systems and release automation. Engineers who can demonstrate unique leadership skills, are passionate about working in a complex environment and codebase, and constantly obsess about the developer experience.

• 4+ years of experience building automation frameworks and tools using Python, Golang, or Bash

• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Proficient in source code dependency management, artifact packaging, and release automation

• Knowledge of operating systems administration (linux or unix), network, and compiler concepts

• Experience with containers, cluster management, and cloud-native deployment patterns

• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, including debugging Java-based stack traces

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with version control systems, e.g., GitHub or GitLab

• Strong background with infrastructure-as-code tools, e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet

• Strong fundamentals in CI/CD software, e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Bamboo

• Proficient in build and packaging automation, e.g., Maven, Gradle, Make, and Artifactory

• Experience using AWS, GCP, and cloud native technologies, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC

• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including operators and Helm charts

• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog