Engineering Lead - Cloud Storage

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what we can accomplish together. We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team, and if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you! The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is responsible for building powerful platforms that enable engineers to deliver incredible experiences to customers. Our compute team is responsible for designing and building the foundational pieces of our in-house cloud technologies. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Apple to deliver forward-looking high-performance distributed storage solutions for various cloud platforms. The successful candidate is highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to create intuitive user experiences, who is passionate about quality, and has a keen eye for the details that surprise and delight our customers. Join this team, and you'll help us create and deploy storage systems that support Apple's world-renowned hardware and software architecture.

Description In this role you will be responsible for developing, debugging and maintaining disaggregated storage software solutions for various cloud platforms. You will: - Closely collaborate with teams within and across organizations. - Design, implement, and debug software components. - Write and review code, generate and review design documentation. - Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters. - Participate in local business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution. - Benchmark, analyze and improve scale, performance and resiliency issues. - Hold yourself and others to a high quality standard expected of Apple products. - Manage a team of 3 Engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals
• Fluency in Go (Golang) in a systems context
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems concepts
• Ability to effectively communicate within a team and with project stakeholders
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills, enthusiastic about quality, design, and user experience

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, with experience in system software development
• Experience with distributed storage solutions such as Ceph or ScaleIO is a huge bonus
• Experience with Kubernetes and writing CSI plugins
• Experience with using and building cloud technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, CloudStack or OpenStack
• Experience building software solutions in Python, C/C++, Swift, Java

Pay & Benefits At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,000 and $272,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .