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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency

Apple · Austin, TX · posted 19 days ago

In short: Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency at Apple in Austin, TX, posted 19 days ago.

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 08/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

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The job

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EmployerApple
LocationAustin, Texas
FieldTechnology › Software engineering
LevelSenior Level
Source categorySoftware Engineering
Posted2026-10-20 (19 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

Job description

Apple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help engineering teams understand, model, and optimize infrastructure demand across large-scale cloud services. This role combines deep application and systems expertise with capacity management, performance engineering, and infrastructure efficiency.

You will partner closely with many engineering teams to develop a deep understanding of their applications, architectures, workloads, and growth patterns; identify the signals that drive infrastructure consumption; and translate those signals into measurable resource demand and capacity requirements.

This is a hands-on technical role requiring broad experience across distributed systems, application architecture, observability, cloud infrastructure, and capacity planning. You will help teams make informed infrastructure decisions while ensuring resources are used efficiently without compromising reliability, performance, or scalability.

Description

You will embed with engineering teams responsible for complex, large-scale services and become a technical partner in understanding how their systems consume infrastructure.

The role requires the ability to navigate complex application ecosystems, understand dependencies and architectural characteristics, and connect application and business-level workload signals to underlying compute, memory, storage, network, and platform resource consumption.

You will work with teams to establish meaningful demand models, improve observability into resource utilization, forecast future infrastructure requirements, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.

You will also help develop common methodologies, tooling, and standards that allow these practices to scale across multiple organizations and services.

Successful candidates will combine strong systems engineering skills with curiosity, analytical thinking, and the ability to build trusted technical relationships across application, infrastructure, operations, finance, and leadership teams.

Responsibilities:

A successful candidate will leverage experience across application and infrastructure domains to improve how teams understand, plan, and optimize their infrastructure resources. Responsibilities include:

Partnering closely with other engineering teams to understand complex application architectures, dependencies, workload characteristics, operational requirements, and the underlying infrastructure supporting them

Developing a deep understanding of how services consume infrastructure across compute, storage, data, network, observability, and other platform resources, and translating that understanding into measurable resource requirements that evolve with application architecture, workload, and business needs

Developing scalable engineering solutions, tooling, and automation to provide visibility into resource consumption, validate capacity requirements, identify capacity risks and efficiency opportunities, and establish safeguards that help engineering teams manage their infrastructure effectively

Identifying and driving software, configuration, architectural, and operational improvements that increase overall system efficiency while preserving reliability, performance, and scalability

Establishing repeatable methodologies, engineering practices, and standards for resource demand modeling, capacity management, and infrastructure efficiency across diverse applications and workloads

Collaborating across application engineering, infrastructure, SRE, capacity planning, finance, business partners, and leadership to align resource requirements and technical solutions, and articulate the business impact and tradeoffs of infrastructure decisions and capacity constraints

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with infrastructure capacity planning, demand forecasting, and resource management, including connecting application and business demand to infrastructure requirements

Experience developing scalable capacity, forecasting, optimization, or resource intelligence solutions for large-scale infrastructure environments

Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, distributed data systems, traffic management, and large-scale service platforms

Understanding of FinOps and infrastructure business operations, including cost management, procurement, data center capacity, cloud billing, and financial planning

Experience applying GenAI, LLMs, or other emerging technologies to build intelligent automation, derive insights from complex systems, and improve engineering workflows at scale

Experience with performance and efficiency engineering across application and infrastructure layers, including identifying architectural, configuration, and operational optimization opportunities

Demonstrated ability to define technical standards and methodologies, communicate complex technical concepts, and influence technical direction across engineering and organizational boundaries

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience developing, operating, or architecting large-scale distributed services and infrastructure

Strong software engineering skills and proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go, with experience designing and implementing production-quality systems, tooling, and automation

Ability to understand and reason about complex application architectures spanning multiple technologies, services, dependencies, and infrastructure layers

Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, data technologies, and containerized environments

Experience using observability and telemetry, including metrics, logs, and performance data, to understand system behavior, resource utilization, and operational characteristics

Ability to translate complex technical problems and system behavior into scalable engineering solutions

Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to build effective technical partnerships and drive solutions across engineering organizations

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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About the role

This is a Senior Level role in the Technology field (Software engineering) at Apple. Senior roles usually expect substantial experience, ownership of results and often the ability to guide others.

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Estimate for a wage earner: 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction (IRS), Social Security 6.2% up to $184,500, Medicare 1.45% (+0.9% above $200,000 single / $250,000 married), and a state rate you set; set your own state tax rate. It ignores credits, pre-tax deductions, local taxes and benefits. Sources: IRS: tax year 2026 inflation adjustments · SSA wage base per Federal Register notice 2025-19763.

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The city

The job is in Austin, TX. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Austin compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Austin is #4 by population, #5 for remote work (#1 = most), #111 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #13 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Travis County, is #5 of 254 counties for average pay ($96,267).

The place in numbers

Austin has 979,539 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 3.2% of the population of Texas. It covers 326 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,001 people per square mile. The median age is 34.7, about the same as the state median (34.7 against 35.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,729 a month (rent plus utilities), 23% above the state median ($1,729 against $1,403). Over a year that is 22.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $555,300, which is 5.9 times the median household income ($93,658); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.5% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (43.5% against 62.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan area has 1,293,690 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $56,950 a year, 12% above the national median ($56,950 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (159,340 jobs, median $47,770); management (133,950 jobs, median $129,060); food preparation and serving related (120,570 jobs, median $33,280). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and architecture and engineering (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($129,060) and computer and mathematical ($114,350). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Travis County was 3.6%. 75.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Travis County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 56.0% drive alone, 2.0% use public transit, 2.5% walk, 30.7% work from home. 10.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 40% below the state average (10.2% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

59.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 76% above the state share (59.6% against 33.8%). 18.7% of residents were born outside the United States, 7% above the state share (18.7% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 12.0%, 13% below the state rate (12.0% against 13.8%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (30.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 49°F (9.3°C). About 841 mm (33 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (111 mm) and Feb the driest (45 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Pflugerville (14 miles, rent 12% higher); Cedar Park (15 miles, rent 7% higher); Round Rock (17 miles, similar rent); Leander (20 miles, rent 12% higher). Rent differences are against Austin; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Austin, TX that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅Distance from the job city ⇅Median rent ⇅Median home value ⇅Median household income ⇅Commute 45+ min ⇅Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅Open jobs there ⇅
Austin, TX0 mi$1,729$555,300$93,65810.2%n/aJobs
Pflugerville, TX14 mi$1,932$402,400$117,79912.3%n/a—
Cedar Park, TX15 mi$1,846$513,600$129,54514.8%n/a—
Round Rock, TX17 mi$1,763$418,600$99,28713.1%n/a—
Leander, TX20 mi$1,939$506,200$139,04822.3%n/a—
Hutto, TX21 mi$2,255$365,700$118,83420.4%n/a—
Kyle, TX22 mi$1,752$334,600$90,32332.1%n/a—
Georgetown, TX26 mi$1,795$429,100$95,06220.8%n/a—
San Marcos, TX31 mi$1,322$310,400$51,28116.2%n/a—
Canyon Lake, TX42 mi$1,327$389,300$97,30140.2%n/a—
New Braunfels, TX47 mi$1,654$339,400$86,02119.5%n/a—

Career paths

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Cybersecurity (366) Data, analytics and AI (1991) Cloud, IT and infrastructure (504) Product management (412)

Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Austin, TX is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅Population of that city ⇅
Austin, TX0 mi979,539
San Antonio, TX74 mi1,479,835
Houston, TX146 mi2,328,253
Fort Worth, TX173 mi963,194
Dallas, TX182 mi1,307,930
Oklahoma City, OK357 mi697,125
Denver, CO768 mi718,877
Phoenix, AZ870 mi1,642,323
Indianapolis, IN926 mi885,860
Jacksonville, FL959 mi977,670
Chicago, IL974 mi2,711,226
Charlotte, NC1,039 mi903,844
Columbus, OH1,067 mi914,802
San Diego, CA1,153 mi1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA1,233 mi3,857,263
Philadelphia, PA1,437 mi1,579,706
San Jose, CA1,459 mi990,138
New York, NY1,512 mi8,483,844
San Francisco, CA1,530 mi830,235
Seattle, WA1,769 mi754,195

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅Straight-line distance ⇅Open jobs ⇅
Lockhart, TX29 mi22
Cibolo, TX57 mi1
Converse, TX64 mi1
San Antonio, TX74 mi179
Lakehills, TX85 mi1

The employer

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Company description (from The Muse): Working at Apple means doing more than you ever thought possible and having more impact than you ever imagined.

size: Large Size; industries: Consumer Goods & Services, Information Technology, Software, Technology; locations on The Muse: Cupertino, CA.

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Median rent in Austin is $1,729 a month and median household income $93,658 (ACS 2020–2024).

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