Software Engineer, Edge Services

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Description

The Edge Engineering team provides software engineering services which operates Edge Infrastructure for Apple. Our Edge infrastructure supports content distribution for Apple's installed base of devices and the related services that are used by more than a billion people. Our DNS infrastructure is critical to all of Apple's services, within and outside the company. We’re looking for a software engineer with a unique blend of experience and interest in systems, architecture, network and software development practices. You will be part of a forward-thinking and dynamic team responsible for supporting Apple’s Edge Infrastructure.

Responsibilities
    • Evaluate, test, develop, and maintain software solutions to address a variety of business requirements.
    • Support our dynamically evolving global Content Delivery and DNS Infrastructure.
    • Develop software to scale up automation and improve site-reliability.
    • Troubleshoot performance issues within the infrastructure using both open source and commercial tools.
    • Participate on implementation teams to integrate new designs into production with minimal impact to operations.
    • Directly interface and coordinate with other internal business groups and external partners.


Minimum Qualifications
    • More than 5 years of proven ability in application development and “Internet infrastructure”.
    • You will need to excel in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with the ability to multi-task and provide operational support across a complex, global infrastructure.
    • Being a collaborative team player, you will work across cross-functional groups and have the ability and willingness to mentor others and have a sound business approach for supporting a global deployment.
    • We perform software development as much as possible. We use Go, Python, shell scripts and other tools as the work requires.
    • You should adopt a product-focused mindset to understanding and predicting user needs and deliver valuable product features
    • Ability to work independently and collaborate well within a distributed team environment
    • Creative problem-solving skills
    • Experienced in working on Linux and/or FreeBSD platforms
    • Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP and HTTP) and security
    • Experience with monitoring tools (both open source and commercial)

Preferred Qualifications
    • Knowledge of Front-end development (HTML5/Typescript/Javascript/React)
    • Experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes
    • Ability/familiarity in building GenAI workflows for analysis and process improvements
    • Knowledge of IPv6, DNS (servers and protocol), DNSSEC, and BGP Anycast is a good to have
    • We don’t expect you to have worked on anything quite our scale, but experience with large web services or similar systems (big data, high performance, distributed systems) will be helpful.
    • “Devops” or Site Reliability / Production Engineering backgrounds are appreciated. We’re running a production service, so knowledge of the full stack is helpful.


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