SWE - Software Build Engineer, Software Delivery
Apple
Software Build Engineer, Software Delivery
Location: Munich, Bavaria-Bayern, Germany
The Software Build & Integration team at Apple is at the core of the Apple software development process. We are responsible for delivering the state-of-the-art operating systems and applications to Apple customers.
Description
The role empowers build engineers to influence new feature integration into Apple software, by collaborating with engineers from Software, Hardware, Localization, QA, and Project Management teams. Software Build Engineers will have the opportunity to utilize and implement solutions using distributed computing, cloud services, and virtualization technologies to deliver Apple software to customers. This involves engineering innovative solutions for Apple's production build system in support of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Xcode, and more!
Responsibilities
- Find multiple solutions to a problem, evaluate tradeoffs, and decide the best approach
- Understand, retain, and perform complex procedures
- Communicate status frequently to product teams and engineering program managers
- Collaborate with team members, eager to jump and help when is needed, with a Can Do Attitude
- Document new processes or update an existing wiki pages, as well as reading backtraces and stack traces
Minimum Qualifications
- macOS, iOS, or UNIX development experience
- UNIX administration and strong software debugging skills
- Knowledge of operating system, network, and compiler concepts
- Knowledge of a scripting language (eg Python or Perl)
Preferred Qualifications
- A good coding ability and testing mindset, e.g. CI/CD, high code coverage, chaos engineering.
- Thorough understanding of UNIX debugging
- Willingness to learn and master new programming language like: Swift, Go, Python, etc
- Familiarity with version control systems such as git or subversion