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# Senior Software Engineer - Compute

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $142,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Unix, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, OpenStack, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Bare Metal, Terraform
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27989407/Senior-Software-Engineer-Compute-Washington-Seattle-7413

## About the Role

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software

Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems

Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes

Highly proficient in Go or Python

Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others

Experienced with highly distributed unix systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting at a planet scale

Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service

Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform

## Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)'s Compute team is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure, ensuring that services scale to meet the demands of Apple's Services offerings. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Apple's Cloud Platform with an emphasis on VM lifecycle management and bare metal infrastructure to help fit Apple's diverse needs. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users. This role offers unique opportunities to solve problems through AI-assisted automation, including building and leveraging AI tools to accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure tooling tailored to SRE workflows and infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

Design, build and implement innovative solutions around VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a highly distributed environment

Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production compute environments

Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams

Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime

Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure as well as other routine processes


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