Software Engineer, Apple Cloud, London
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Software and Services
The Apple Cloud organisation is building the next generation of tools empowering Apple’s software developers to ship products our customers love. We're a small, empathetic, user-focused team crafting and building a continuous integration and delivery system that Apple’s developers utilise to build, test and deploy their code.
Our goal is for Apple-internal developers to have a happier, easier time developing because of us, so that Apple's end-users have a better experience, and we're looking to hire people who are excited to make that a reality.
We try to understand the underlying user needs common across different teams, and provide optimised shared solutions so that individual developers can focus on their own priorities.
Description
This role is primarily focused on developing and delivering solutions by designing, writing, deploying, and maintaining code. Part of the role involves working closely with partner teams in order to help them make efficient use of the tooling and infrastructure we provide.
The teams are primarily based in London (UK) and Cupertino (US), we are looking for London-based applicants.
Minimum Qualifications
- Empathy for the developers who will use the systems we produce.
- Commitment to fostering an open and inclusive work environment.
- Focus on understanding the underlying needs of the user, and letting that guide the solution.
- Growth mindset and willingness to learn from and teach others.
- Willingness to productively challenge assumptions.
- Curiosity about how systems work and how they fail.
- Detail oriented and proud of the work you deliver.
- An ability to collaborate with teams who may be unfamiliar with build and CI tooling to help them get the most out of them.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- You don’t need to have experience with any or all of the following, we know that you can learn and grow on the job, but these are some of the things our team values and focuses on day-to-day:
- Appreciate automation and tooling, and believe that they play a critical role in software development.
- Advocate for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Have experience building tools for engineers, some of which may be backed by distributed systems at large scale.
- Build tools such as Bazel, Gradle, Buildbarn.
- Languages including Starlark, Go, Java, Python, Rust, Bash.
- Technologies including Docker & Kubernetes
- Want to participate in the Bazel open source community.