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Responsibilities
- Design and develop virtualization-based runtimes for Virtual Machines and Linux Containers across Apple platforms and data centers.
- Own significant technologies and technical designs from architecture and design documentation through implementation, review, and testing.
- Build systems involving Linux containerization, filesystems, image distribution, content storage, and kernel and container security.
- Define test strategies, including regression prevention, negative-case validation, and security testing, for complex systems.
- Design benchmarks and load tests, analyze metrics, and troubleshoot resource contention and performance bottlenecks.
- Lead code reviews, establish technical standards, raise engineering quality, and mentor engineers at all levels.
- Collaborate on Apple Container and other open-source projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience.
- At least 8+ years of software design and development experience in infrastructure engineering, including compute, storage, or network virtualization, microservices architectures, and containerization.
- Advanced proficiency in C, C++, Swift, or Go, with experience designing high-performance, secure, scalable, and reliable systems.
- Hands-on experience with Linux containerization, Linux filesystems, image distribution, content storage, kernel security, or container security.
- Demonstrated ownership of technical design from design documents and architecture tradeoffs through implementation and review.
- Experience with Linux system programming, code review leadership, test strategy, performance analysis, benchmarking, or load testing is preferred.
- Experience in cloud security, container or Linux kernel security, or API security is preferred.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Apple Container, Kata, Firecracker, KubeVirt, Cloud Hypervisor, rust-vmm, macOS Virtualization Framework, QEMU, KVM, or Darwin systems programming is preferred.
About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.