Job Description
Summary
The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and effective operating independently, with a desire to learn and develop technical leadership. Team members are welcome and encouraged to participate in design discussions, code reviews, and development across a range of technologies. The team is actively involved in defining OS architecture and the design of cross-functional features that capitalize on Darwin technologies. Our environment fosters technical innovation, meaningful technology ownership, and a liberating amount of autonomy!
Description
* Building technologies to enable server application packaging and distribution (like OCI images or Flatpak)
* Enabling Darwin to be integrated with cloud management and orchestration technologies (think cloud-init or Kubernetes)
* Improving Darwin’s support for observability at scale (e.g. OpenTelemetry)
* Developing new security or privacy features to improve Private Cloud Compute
An engineer on the Darwin Evolution team would regularly:
* Participate in all phases of the software development cycle: from problem definition and design, through implementation, testing, and debugging
* Work with client teams to build the features required for Darwin to meet their development and product requirements
* Partner with technology owners throughout Apple to enable their technologies for use in server environments
* Engage cross-functionally to affect technical change across Apple
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Experience with UNIX-like systems
- Strong understanding of operating systems architecture and systems programming fundamentals
- Fluent in any of the following programming languages: C, Objective-C or Swift
- Practical understanding of security principles, concepts, and techniques (e.g. certificates, software signing, attestation)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building operating system infrastructure to support cloud computing
- Experience with system daemon, library development, or API design
- Efficiency in scripting, data analysis, and automation using Python, shell, or other scripting languages
- Ability to systematically troubleshoot issues across the entire technology stack
- Perspective on how successful teams build and operate cloud technologies
- Involvement in open source technologies and development communities such as Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, etc
- Passion for raising the bar for privacy and security in cloud computing