Job Details

Role Number: 200653186-3956

Summary

Join us, Retail Engineering Foundations, the team that works on the foundational infrastructure & platforms for software used in Apple Stores and Apple Store Online!

We are seeking DevOps Engineers who are passionate about operational excellence through automation and engineering procedures to work closely with other DevOps Engineers, SREs, Software Engineers, Project & Product Managers, and other internal & external partners. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the integration of development and operations processes to deliver a best-in-class highly-available development ecosystem for Apple Retail.

When you join Retail Engineering Foundations, you’ll help design and manage systems, frameworks, and platforms that countless Apple employees and customers rely on every day.

Description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, develop, test, document, improve, and maintain DevOps systems using Go, Python, Node, and Java. You will partake in every aspect of your projects, from planning to design to implementation and future iterations.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional work experience.

• 3-5 years proven experience implementing and operating fully-automated CI/CD platforms to build, test, and deploy containerized software applications on cloud-based Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, etc.).

• 2+ years proven experience with a language like Go, Python, Node, or Java including proficiency in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience developing software in a professional capacity.

• Proficiency in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible DevOps systems.

• Understanding of compliance & security concepts (e.g. SOC2, SOX, CVEs, OWASP, etc.).

• Understanding of compliance & security concepts (e.g. SOC2, SOX, CVEs, OWASP, etc.).

• Expertise in implementing and operating build & test systems for Java and other languages for polyrepo & monorepo environments using branch-based & trunk-based development strategies (e.g. Maven, Gradle, Bazel, etc.).

• Experience with implementing and operating DevOps platforms for high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure distributed microservices and/or modular monolith systems developed by large & globally-distributed software engineering teams, and deployed with high frequency (e.g. continuously or daily using Spinnaker, Jenkins, etc.).

• Comfortable using relational (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) databases, including knowledge of schema design and query optimization.

• Knowledge of advanced networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing, OSI model, etc.).

• Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for efficient inter-service communication and API design.

• Understanding of system monitoring and observability — including metrics, events, and distributed traces — with familiarity with the OpenTelemetry (OTel) standard.

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