Summary

Posted: 2 Sep 2024

Role Number:200566016

Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Can you intrinsically see the importance of every detail? At Apple, our compute team is responsible for designing and building the foundational pieces of our data center software. In this role, you will collaborate with engineers across Apple to build and deploy forward-looking high-performance batch cloud systems that support Apple’s research and development. To better support Apple’s operations in Europe and Israel, the team is looking to expand engineering and support in the EMEIA region. The cloud engineering manager will be the leader of a cross-functional engineering team in EMEIA that will work together will the US team to develop features across the stack. The EMEIA team (like the one in Cupertino) will also engage with platform customers and will support platform issues in the local timezone. Finally, this role is highly technical and is expected to contribute to one of the four areas of the team: control plane and scheduling; runtime and virtualization; object and block storage; or infrastructure.

Description

The compute organization runs a multi-region, large-scale, in-house-developed, batch platform that empowers Apple’s R&D around the world. To keep supporting its scale and growing user base, the compute organization is starting a new engineering team in EMEIA that will work on the platform while being closer (in space and time) to some of its customers. In this role, you will: - Manage and organize the Ireland team and align objectives and deliverables with the team in Cupertino. - Design, implement, and debug core execution environment components of internal platforms. Depending on your area of expertise, these might be part of control plane (scheduling, resource management, APIs, high-availability), node runtime (secure VMs and containers), storage infrastructure, networking systems, or infrastructure. - Write and review code, generate and review design documentation - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters - Participate in a business-hours 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

• 5+ years of experience in related software development (or comparable academic experience).
• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance.
• Familiarity with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance.
• Experience developing and managing a large-scale production system.
• Fluency in Golang, Python, or similar languages in a systems or distributed systems context.
• Quick at learning and contributing to new code bases.
• Customer focused thinking and strong problem solver with attention to detail.
• Able to thrive and make progress while the core of the team is in a different location or time zone. Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results.
Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of algorithms and distributed system architectures. Familiarity with workload scheduling.
• Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals. Familiarity with the mechanics behind containers and virtualization
• Familiarity with the mechanics behind infrastructure management. Experience with large scale server provisioning and maintenance.
• Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals. Familiarity with the mechanics behind containers and virtualization.
• Experience with Virtual Storage (Scale IO, Ceph, etc) or Networking Technologies (SDN, Open VSwitch)