Job Description
Summary
Are you passionate about software automation and release engineering? Does shipping an OS to hundreds of millions of users appeal to you?
Be part of the team that ships macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS to the world! The SWE team is looking for an individual with strong OS fundamentals, excellent communication skills, and a desire to join an amazing team who ships OS’ that drive Apple Products. We’re looking for people who enjoy designing solutions to solve problems and an appetite for continuous improvement.
Description
This job requires project management skills. Excellent communication skills to work cross functionally with other organizations is a must. This is a great opportunity for a project manager that is also very interested in the technology or a release engineer who is highly organized and wants to help drive and deliver iOS software.
This role includes responsibilities for:
Converge on developer seeds and customer shipping software by managing source changes for nightly builds
Daily release of the iOS and related builds I
dentifying, escalating, and communicating key issues
Developing strategies for improving build release process
Driving for resolutions on build issues with engineering teams
Helping to manage risk in the release endgame leading up to customer launch
Releasing software to seed users and customers
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS EE/CS/CE or equivalent experience
- Proven track record of defining processes and executing on them
- Must be ok working one Saturday or Sunday per week
Preferred Qualifications
- Build and Release Engineering/Release Management experience highly desirable
- Project management experience in software development life cycle highly desirable
- Unix programming/scripting experience highly desirable
- Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities