Build Orchestration Systems Engineer

Job Description

The SWE Developer Productivity organization at Apple is seeking experienced engineers to join the Build Orchestration team to develop and operate a large-scale build system service used by all of the Software Engineering organization at Apple.

Requirements

• Experience or interest in traditional and/or distributed build systems such as Make, CMake, Bazel, Buck, etc.
• Experience with high-performance strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, C++, Scala, or others.
• Experience with cloud orchestration systems, cloud services, and other high-performance system software.
• Experience in systems programming (e.g., operating systems, kernel development, compilers or package managers).

Responsibilities

• Solve bringing Apple's many disparate unmanaged build orchestration instances into a centralized service by leveraging a strong distributed backend.
• Combine unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques to meet challenging customer demands and help manage the transition to a service-based architecture.
• Analyze problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems to make high-level architectural decisions about how to architect the backend.
• Work alongside the team to implement solutions while developing appropriate testing and operational mechanisms.