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Apple

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

3 weeks ago• Austin, TX
Viewed on February 1, 2026
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Working at Apple means doing more than you ever thought possible and having more impact than you ever imagined.

• Size: 10000+ employees
• Industry: Technology, Information Technology, Software, Consumer Goods & Services

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Apple is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to develop solutions to optimize software services, cloud infrastructure and platforms for maximum efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness while ensuring reliability and scalability across diverse workloads. Our team is responsible for developing service and infrastructure architecture solutions for mission-critical services. This is a hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in analyzing and optimizing applications and infrastructure.

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This position requires practical knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, operations, Fin-Ops practices and cloud technologies.

You will be joining a team of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers working on this leading-edge and constantly changing space. Successful candidates will have strong engineering and communication skills, as well as the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the company. You should have a real passion for quality, technical excellence, and an ability to understand complex systems. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you.

","responsibilities":"A successful candidate will leverage experience across technical domains to identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency and cost optimize application services. This role will be responsible for:

Analyzing application architectures, workload utilization metrics and usage patterns to identify inefficiencies and areas of optimization

Identifying configurations or architectural changes to make improvements to various components of an application stack or infrastructure

Understanding operational, business risks, financial impact/benefits related to architecture or configuration changes, required for optimizations

Developing tools, capabilities to enable stakeholders, partners and development teams to analyze and take action, at scale

Collaborating and presenting solutions across engineering teams, leadership and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Solid understanding of Fin-Ops & infrastructure business operations, including billing, cost management, data center capacity management, finance, licensing

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Experience with cloud native application architectures, including container orchestration Kubernetes, data technologies and traffic management

Demonstrated competence with GenAI and various LLMs for use in software development and analytic use cases

Proficient in programming languages such as Python/Java/Go for automation or integration with APIs

Strong project management skills, including excellent presentation development

Influential - ability to influence teams and leaders across the company to achieve your vision

Passion for evangelizing technologies

Minimum Qualifications:

5+ years of experience developing, operating and optimizing services and infrastructure in third party cloud and private cloud data center environments

Ability to analyze, architect and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies, application stack layers (app, data, network, compute)and cloud services

Experience with analyzing and tuning applications for performance, efficiency and cost optimization

Experience with monitoring tools, including metrics collection, dashboard creation and log analytics

Proficient with Java with a deep understanding of JVM and optimization techniques for performance and efficiency

Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TXJob ID: apple-200634648-0157_rxr-660Employment Type: OTHERPosted: 2026-01-07T19:13:48Apply on company site

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