Storage Systems Engineer, Software Delivery & Technologies

Summary

The Storage Systems Engineer role, within the Software Delivery & Technologies (SD&T) organization, is at the core of the Apple software release process. This Software Engineering Systems role is responsible for developing storage systems, placing storage services into production, and applying reliability engineering design to our storage infrastructure, which is used by software engineers to develop Apple software for our customers around the world. Having depth and breadth of knowledge of storage infrastructure in a large-scale distributed environment is a strength you'll need. If you are passionate about solving complex distributed storage systems at scale, we want to hear from you!

Description

The Storage Systems Engineer is part of the SD&T Enterprise team, which is responsible for building and managing a portfolio of services relied upon by Apple R&D. Our storage platforms are at the foundation in hosting Apple source code management and collaboration tools, used by Apple software engineers world wide to develop, test, and release Apple software. As our Storage Systems Engineer, you will drive design, development, and debugging of reliability, performance, and security engineering of our on-premise storage infrastructure, instrument observability of storage and enterprise services, lead service incidents to resolution, and report on SLI/SLO metrics for visibility across the organization.

Responsibilities

As a Storage Systems Engineer, responsibilities include:
Software development to enhance storage reliability and performance
Secure architecture design and infrastructure engineering of storage platforms
Deployments, configuration, and monitoring of open source storage platforms at enterprise scale
Automate continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines of storage environments
Engineer and test in Development and UAT environments with goal of 99.9% uptime of Production environments
Implement observability of storage systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting
Generate reports regarding service metrics on performance, availability, and reliability
Champion practices regarding change control management and incident response

A successful Storage Systems Engineer will be expected to:
Proactively communicate engineering project status to stakeholders and follow through on committed timelines
Explore engineering options to problems, present risk vs reward, then execute best approach
Demonstrate willingness to ask for clarification and increase awareness of the larger context
Collaborate asynchronously with global team members across multiple timezones
Draft RFC proposals, document new processes, and update existing documentation
Eager and curious to learn across multiple technology stacks

Minimum Qualifications

Experience in designing distributed storage systems for reliability, scalability, security, and performant HA/DR
Experience implementing and troubleshooting distributed systems across storage, networking, and security
Incident management experience in managing customer-facing storage systems in 24/7 environment
Excellent judgment and integrity with ability to make timely and data-driven decisions
Capacity to adapt to changing requirements and anticipate the needs of stakeholders
Education: Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
Programming Language: Python, Swift, Go, or similar

Preferred Qualifications

Uses agentic AI workflows regularly for triaging incidents and root cause analysis
Applies agentic AI coding tools for engineering development and test validation
Experience as storage administrator (e.g. NFS filesystem, S3 object)
Experience with container platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)
Experience with monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)

Pay & Benefits — Cupertino, California, United States

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.