Senior Distributed Storage SRE — Go/Python & Linux Systems

JobCubby; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Cloud Storage SRE team is seeking seasoned software and systems engineers to design, build, and operate distributed storage systems used by hundreds of millions of users. You will own complex projects, deliver reliable services, and collaborate across time zones while supporting on-call duties.

Ideal candidates have strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or Rust, deep Linux internals knowledge, and experience with provisioning, DR, and large-scale storage deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
• The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.
• Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS).
• Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
• Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems and automation opportunities.
• Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of projects or deliverables and drive designs.
• Design solutions and build buy-in across stakeholders.
• Deliver designs on time and ensure quality and reliability with the team.
• Communicate technically and drive standards across a globally distributed team.
• Support on-call rotations to maintain high availability of services.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Linux internals

Distributed storage

Kubernetes

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Spinnaker

Job description

Apple Cloud Storage SRE team is seeking seasoned software and systems engineers to design, build, and operate distributed storage systems used by hundreds of millions of users. You will own complex projects, deliver reliable services, and collaborate across time zones while supporting on-call duties.

Ideal candidates have strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or Rust, deep Linux internals knowledge, and experience with provisioning, DR, and large-scale storage deployments.