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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Software Quality Engineer | Apple - Media, Graphics & Compute Technologies (MGCT) team in San Diego, CA

🎬 Calling all Software Engineers passionate about Media, Video, and Automation! In this role, quality engineering means real software engineering. You won’t just run test suites—you will design automated test applications, build scalable harnesses from scratch, and architect end-to-end automation pipelines that push media playback, spatial video, and pro capture workflows to their limits. What we’re looking for: • Hands-on programming depth in Python, Swift, or C++. • Demonstrated ownership building automated test systems, CI/CD telemetry pipelines, or real-time media test frameworks. • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline. • A proactive engineering mindset—someone who loves breaking complex pipelines, diagnosing root causes, and championing quality before software hits the hands of millions. Whether you have 1–3+ years of professional experience or exceptional software/systems internship delivery under your belt, we’d love to connect. 🔗 Explore details & apply: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200682437-3543/software-quality-engineer-media 📩 Feel free to drop me a note or share this with an engineer in your network who would thrive here! michael_villarreal@apple.com

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Senior Streaming Media QE Web Automation Engineer | Apple — Media, Graphics & Compute Technologies team in Cupertino, CA.

Our team is looking for a senior Quality Engineer who excels at the intersection of modern web playback architecture and bulletproof automation infrastructure. In this role, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of test framework architecture for high-scale media streaming across platforms, partnering closely with core development teams to set the technical bar. What we’re targeting for this role: • Experience: ~7+ years in software quality engineering and automated test framework development. • Core Stack: Deep proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript, modern DOM automation, and web streaming player architecture. • Infrastructure: Hands-on expertise building and scaling CI/CD test harnesses and deployment pipelines. • Engineering Impact: A proven track record of stable organizational ownership, technical leadership, and the confidence to challenge design trade-offs and drive quality gates with dev teams. If you have a passion for media playback performance and want to build automation that powers world-class streaming experiences, I’d love to connect. 👉 Learn more & apply directly: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200681331-0836/streaming-media-qe-web-automation-engineer-graphics-games-and-ml?team=SFTWR (Feel free to DM me directly with your resume or profile!) michael_villarreal@apple.com #Hiring #SoftwareQuality #TestAutomation #JavaScript #TypeScript #AppleCareers #TechJobs #StreamingMedia

Full Stack Engineer | Apple - Graphics, Games, and Machine Learning (GGML) team in Cupertino, CA.

In this role, you won't just be building standard web apps—you’ll architect high-throughput platforms, telemetry dashboards, and developer tooling that power the next generation of Apple Silicon graphics performance and on-device ML workflows. What we’re looking for: • Strong proficiency in Python (modern async frameworks, API architecture, data pipelines) • Production experience with modern front-end technologies (React, TypeScript) • Solid background in distributed systems, REST/GraphQL services, and database design • A passion for—or interest in—graphics pipelines, 3D/gaming ecosystems, or ML developer tools • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience If you love taking complex backend workflows and turning them into fast, intuitive full-stack tools used by world-class engineers, we would love to connect. 📍 Location: Cupertino, CA 🔗 Learn more & apply directly: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200680950-0836/full-stack-engineer-graphics-games-and-ml?team=MLAI Feel free to comment below or send me a direct message with your resume if this matches your background! michael_villarreal@apple.com #Hiring #SoftwareEngineering #Python #FullStack #React #AppleJobs #MachineLearning #Graphics #TechCareers

LinkedIn Profile for Mike Villarreal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvillarreal

I partner with engineering leaders at Apple to build and scale specialized technical teams across Graphics, Machine Learning, Media Technologies, and Core Software Systems. Rather than relying on volume, my approach centers on precision and operational rigor: - Deep Engineering Calibration: I invest heavily upfront to understand the exact architectural and skill baselines each team requires—ensuring high alignment from first screen to final panel. - Data-Informed Pipeline Health: I manage requisitions like product funnels, using real-time analytics, SLA tracking, and conversion metrics to eliminate bottlenecks and keep interview velocity high. - High-Touch Candidate Advocacy: I believe great hiring is transparent. I brief and support candidates through every stage of the evaluation process so they can bring their best, most authentic work to the table. Core Focus: Technical Recruiting • Engineering Talent Acquisition • Pipeline & Funnel Analytics • Full-Lifecycle Recruiting • Talent Calibration & Strategy

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Apple, Inc. > Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Seattle

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200319043/site-reliability-engineer-sre-apple-cloud-services?team=SFTWR Key Qualifications: Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment The ability to design, author, and release code in languages like Go, Python, Ruby or Java Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard networking protocols, and components Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker) Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes Description: Apple Cloud Services infrastructure is BIG. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers and servicing hundreds of millions of users presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these problems using data, teamwork, and your own expertise. SREs at Apple own the full infrastructure stack; from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management — our responsibilities are both broad and deep. ACS runs the majority of its systems on Linux. We run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. Our team is collaborative; we work closely with the development teams we support to deliver the best results for Apple. We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Apple Cloud Services Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Apple Cloud Services Key Qualifications 5+ years of work experience in designing and building distributed software systems Strong proficiency in Rust or Go Knowledge of development and integration (e.g. CI/CD) Experience working on high volume services A critical eye for correct code Proficiency in testing your software Experience with gRPC Experience with Linux Understanding of OIDC/OAuth2, JWT (optional) Experience with OPA and Rego (optional) Experience with WebAssembly/WASM and sandboxing in Rust (optional) Description * Work with the infrastructure and application teams to provide identity and authorization services to our internal customers * Work closely with your teammates to deliver software in a timely fashion * Work with security professionals to evaluate your teams code and design accordingly to their recommendations * Be accountable for service level objectives and work with SRE efforts to hit our targets * Estimate, code, test, and deploy features * Participate in code reviews * Research secure designs and present those to your team, management and customers * Technical experience in security technologies, especially Identity, Authentication, Authorization are preferred, but not required.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Site Reliability Engineer ( SRE )

Apples' Internet Services Operations group is currently seeking a number of exceptional Site Reliability Engineers' as we enhance the support model for multiple Web Services line of business.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Containers)

Apple is building next generation software driven data centers, powered by resource efficient cluster managers and schedulers; especially container related features such as control groups and namespaces. CoreOS, Docker, OpenVZ, LXC, Apache Mesos, Zookeeper, Kubernetes

Monday, August 18, 2014

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

I have a product developer role opening up that focuses on developing the services and tools needed in an asynchronous distributed system orchestrating the continuous delivery process. The system and features you will deliver are focused on enabling the development teams to have higher velocity, reduced cycle time and better collaboration with other engineering teams at Apple......... Merited Experience = ▪ Ruby, JVM, Clojure ▪ AMQP/Kafka ▪ Hypermedia API ▪ Docker, Vagrant ▪ Gradle/Maven ▪ Cassandra, Datomic ▪ Pub/Sub systems .................... Mike Villarreal | Devops Careers Advocate @ Apple | villarreal.mike@apple.com | 408-642-0831

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Friday, August 20, 2010

Data Architect

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals is working in conjunction with one of the busiest web companies in the world located in San Francisco on a permanent job opening.


They are looking for a world-class data architect and database administrator. They need someone who is curious about big data problems and excited about their site and its future.


CLIENT
We are a well-funded, private company where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this job is for you!


RESPONSIBILITIES
You must know when to denormalize your data, when to store it using the blackhole storage engine, whether to use SQL or NoSQL, and when to use flat files. You will work on an elite team of database gurus, alongside systems administrators and operations engineers.


REQUIREMENTS:
BS/CS or equivalent experience
Extensive experience as a Database Administrator
Extensive experience with Unix/Linux
Extensive experience with MySQL
Experience in a high-volume data environment
Experience in a large cluster environment
Intimate familiarity with typical CS algorithms
Familiarity with and deep interest in NoSQL databases
Familiarity with Map/Reduce programming methodology
Ability to carry a pager and be available 24x7
A sense of humor and an unflappable demeanor
Python, BASH, and/or Perl scripting skills (in that order)


QUALIFICATIONS
Experience with Cassandra, Hadoop Hive, PostgreSQL
Experience working in an engineering organization
Experience with data warehousing technologies
Experience with fulltext searching technologies
Familiarity with alerting and monitoring systems and best practices
Familiarity with Puppet or other configuration management systems
Experience coding Erlang, Java, C, C++
Experience with Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB, Hypertable, HBase, Voldemort, MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, etc



Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to Mike Villarreal at mike.villarreal@adeccona.com

Network Engineer

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals is working in conjunction with one of the busiest web companies in the world located in San Francisco on a permanent job opening. They are seeking to fill several Network Engineer positions as well as senior/director level, with people who have a passion and interest in network engineering to help them build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps their site running.



Client:
We are a well-funded, pre-IPO where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this job is for you!



Details:
Their system infrastructure includes Unix, Python, Hadoop, Casandra, Rabbitmq, puppet, etc dealing with complex/large scale networks requiring the latest tools in architecture and development.


Responsibilities:


You will be helping support our internal infrastructure used by developers, r&d and operations as well as maintaining public infrastructure used by millions of people a day.
Manage physical and logical configuration of all network devices including: switches, load balancers, and routers
Work closely with all functional groups to maintain and build our infrastructure
Monitor network statistics to proactively stay ahead of the growth curve

Qualifications:



Minimum of 4 years hands on working experience
BS degree preferred
Switching/routing configuration including: Vlans, Spanning Tree, BGP, OSPF, VRRP,
Scripting/programming (Python, Perl, or Shell)
Experience with application load balancing (F5 BIG IP)
Network monitoring tools and network configuration skills ( DNS, SNMP, Nagios)
Good understanding of common ip protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP
Basic UNIX knowledge
Able to lift at least 40 lbs

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills


Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to mike.villarreal@adeccona.com

Lead Software Infrastructure Engineer- Hadoop

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals has a client with a permanent job opening in San Francisco, CA.



CLIENT
We are a well-funded, pre-IPO where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, we surface the best stuff as voted on by our users. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this place is for you!


DESCRIPTION
We are collecting more and more data every day and we need someone to spearhead our data storage and mining strategy.



RESPONSIBILITIES
• Deal with tons of data
• Propose and implement solutions for analytics, data mining and log storage/processing
• Coordinate with the ops team to ensure our Hadoop cluster is happy



REQUIREMENTS:
• Experience with storing terabytes of data in Hadoop
• Able to write map/reduce jobs by hand
• Knowledge and experience with tools like Hive, Pig etc
• Ability to coordinate with various teams to fulfill their reporting & data mining needs
• Some experience administering a decent sized Hadoop cluster
• Have cooked up A/B testing & analytics strategies in the past
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred



Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to Mike Villarreal at mike.villarreal@adeccona.com

Senior Web 2.0 Apps QA Automation

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals has a client with a permanent job opening in San Francisco, CA.


CLIENT
We are a well-funded, pre-IPO where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, we surface the best stuff as voted on by our users. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this place is for you!


DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with plenty of Python and Selenium knowledge and lots of experience testing large scale websites.



RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead automated testing efforts for specific areas of functionality
• Develop tools to improve product quality and automate processes
• Contribute to test execution efforts
• Facilitate communication within business, development, product and operations teams
• Assist in maintaining QA environments



QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in development and/or testing of Web 2.0 applications - both frontend and backend
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages including Python
• Solid understanding of frontend automation and experience with Selenium
• 5+ years experience in Web testing
• Experience with source control tools such as Git
• Working knowledge of QA methodology, testing techniques and approaches
• Experience in agile development process (XP/Scrum)
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming preferred
• Experience with load/performance testing preferred (JMeter)
• Experience with production monitoring tools preferred
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems or other relevant field



Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to Mike Villarreal at mike.villarreal@adeccona.com

Lead Front-end Web Developer

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals has a client with a permanent job opening in San Francisco, CA.



CLIENT
We are a well-funded, pre-IPO where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, we surface the best stuff as voted on by our users. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this place is for you!



DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a strong software engineer to lead our team of web developers tasked with the care and feeding of our flagship website.



RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead front-end development on our website, including hands-on code development
• Mentor other engineers and help build out the team
• Plan and manage team sprints
• Work closely with the Product team to shape functional requirements and determine deliverables
• Create and contribute to open source projects
• Communicate status and escalate issues



QUALIFICATIONS
• 6+ years experience in Web development
• 3+ years using PHP
• Excellent experience leading other developers
• Solid experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and OO programming
• Knowledge of PHPUnit and test-driven development desirable
• Knowledge of Python, Solr/Lucene, Git, Memcache, SOA is a plus
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred



Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to Mike Villarreal at mike.villarreal@adeccona.com

Cassandra Internals SWE

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in the recruitment of engineering and information technologies professionals has a client with a permanent job opening in San Francisco, CA.


CLIENT:
We are a well-funded, pre-IPO where you can have an impact on how people discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, we surface the best stuff as voted on by our users. If you're looking to work at a company that allows you to be yourself (surrounded by an open-minded environment and in which the investigation of new technologies and/or processes is encouraged), dog friendly, 3 meals a day, a hip and happening environment, then this place is for you!


DESCRIPTION:
We are going be using Cassandra as their primary data store... so, they need someone to work on the internals just about full time.


RESPONIBILITIES:
• Dive deep into the Cassandra community & become a regular project contributor
• Work on Cassandra's internals (performance, new features - the whole 9)
• Be an integral part of our infrastructure team & help us make sure we build a rock solid, fast & scalable backend


REQUIREMENTS:
• Senior level engineer
• Ideally you've got experience with distributed, peer to peer systems
• Know your data structures, algorithms & theory: Vector clocks and all that good stuff don't phase you
• You've heard of (better yet, contributed to) the Cassandra, Hbase or Hypertable projects & want to get paid to work on the Cassandra internals
• The BigTable & Dynamo papers read like a bedtime story to you
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar/relevant field preferred


Apply now using the hyperlink or send your resume directly to Mike Villarreal at mike.villarreal@adeccona.com