Apple

Senior Software Engineer, Capacity & Efficiency Engineering

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5 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USA or Seattle, WA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering teams to understand applications, architectures, workloads, dependencies, and growth patterns.
  • Translate application and business workload signals into infrastructure demand models and capacity requirements.
  • Use observability and telemetry to analyze resource utilization, system behavior, and operational characteristics.
  • Forecast infrastructure requirements and identify opportunities to improve performance, efficiency, and resource management.
  • Develop scalable capacity planning, forecasting, optimization, and resource intelligence solutions.
  • Create common methodologies, tooling, standards, and engineering practices that scale across organizations and services.
  • Define technical standards, communicate complex concepts, and influence technical direction across engineering and organizational boundaries.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience developing, operating, or architecting large-scale distributed services and infrastructure.
  • Strong software engineering skills and proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
  • Experience designing and implementing production-quality systems, tooling, and automation.
  • Ability to reason about complex application architectures spanning technologies, services, dependencies, and infrastructure layers.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, data technologies, and containerized environments.
  • Experience with metrics, logs, performance data, observability, and telemetry.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience with infrastructure capacity planning, demand forecasting, resource management, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, distributed data systems, traffic management, and large-scale service platforms.
  • Preferred understanding of FinOps, cost management, procurement, data center capacity, cloud billing, and financial planning.
  • Preferred experience applying GenAI, LLMs, or other emerging technologies to intelligent automation and engineering workflows.
  • Preferred performance and efficiency engineering experience across application and infrastructure layers.
  • Excellent communication, analytical, relationship-building, and cross-organizational collaboration skills.

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About Apple

10,000+ employees

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.

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