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DevOps Engineer, Store Apps Engineering - Retail & Marcom Engineering

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimePosted 3 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Apple's Retail and Marcom Engineering team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and operate systems connecting Apple products with customers. This role focuses on the technology behind Apple's online and physical stores, driving interactive marketing experiences and tools. The engineer will architect and lead distributed compute platforms, work with cross-functional teams to identify and test solutions, and ensure smooth deployment. The position requires proficiency in Python, Rust, or Java, experience with cloud environments (OpenStack, AWS, Azure, etc.), and expertise in infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation. A BS degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant experience are required.

The people here at Apple don’t just build products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes. Do you enjoy solving complex business problems with process and technology? Do you thrive in environments that require multi-functional thinking, collaboration, and innovation? If so, this may be the job for you.

Description


IS&T Retail Store Apps Engineering is responsible for the technology and IT systems used to enable Apple Retail Stores to service millions of customers enabling Apple Retail to become one of the best retailers in the world. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a group of “A” player software engineers from related but different backgrounds to make Apple Retail truly innovative. To be successful in this role, the candidate must be hands-on, proactive, talented at problem solving, have the mindset to challenge the norm and have a strong desire to learn and work towards excellence. Apple is looking for an individual that takes pride in crafting solutions to enhance product delivery by architecting and leading distributed compute platforms and application services. This engineer needs to work closely with cross-functional teams to identify potential solutions and go on to work with the engineering teams to properly test and deploy changes. Critical thinking, writing solid and clean code, planning, documenting, and communicating within the team and cross-functionally is critical to the success of the role.

Minimum Qualifications


BA/BS degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant experience. Proficiency in software development using Python, Rust, and/or Java programming languages. Experience working with cloud compute environments like OpenStack, AliCloud, AWS, GCP or Azure. Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, and automation. Experience with troubleshooting, problem solving, and debugging. Comfortable with on-call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications


Conversational and written English proficiency Proficiency in implementing and correlating telemetry using monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus Building and operating container orchestrating systems (Docker, Kubernetes and micro-services) Experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps Excellent written and verbal communication skills Experience in UNIX/Linux Operating Systems

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    Design a rate limiter

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    Architect a key-value store for distributed systems.

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    Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment

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