In this role, you will develop, debug, and maintain key features of a compute control plane service. You will:
* Actively participate in the design and development of control plane components (scheduling, resource management, APIs, high-availability) for a large-scale multi-site cloud compute platform.
* Write and review code, generate and review design documentation.
* Participate in software qualifications and rollouts to production clusters.
* Participate in a rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution.
* Work with a wide range of software and hardware engineering teams across Apple to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform.
* Engage closely with partners and customers to drive clarity in Apple's compute needs.
* Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products
Minimum Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to design, debug, and test complex software systems
Experience with software development in distributed systems, critical internet services and/or platform infrastructure.
Understanding of distributed systems and database concepts.
Strong communication and organizational skills.
Understanding of core operational concepts - monitoring, alerting, incident management.
Understanding of performance analysis methodologies.
User-focused: passion for quality, attention to details, and delivering outstanding user experiences
BS in Computer Science / related fields and 6+ years of experience or MS with 4+ years of experience or PhD with 2+ years of experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience developing control planes for critical internet services / platform infrastructure
Expertise in solving scheduling problems e.g. quota management, fair share, placement etc.
Knowledge of operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance).
Knowledge of datacenter architecture (networking topologies, host placement strategies, and failure modes); design of multi-datacenter systems; failure domains; and wide-area networking.
Comfort working with geographically distributed partners
Golang proficiency
Experience with Kubernetes, postgresql, zookeeper, etcd.