Senior Storage Platform Engineer (SRE) - Scalable Cloud

Apple Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a seasoned Storage SRE to join the Object Storage team in London. You will design, build, and operate scalable storage services used by hundreds of millions of users, ensuring high availability and reliability.

The role requires ownership of features from design through delivery, collaboration with cross-functional partners, and participation in an on-call rotation to handle alerts and incidents across a globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
• Strong knowledge of Linux storage subsystems (LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph).
• Understanding Linux internals, networks, and distributed systems.
• Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate Apple Cloud storage services.
• Own delivery of features end-to-end with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Collaborate on standards across distributed teams.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Linux

Distributed storage

Tools

Kubernetes

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Spinnaker

Job description

Apple is seeking a seasoned Storage SRE to join the Object Storage team in London. You will design, build, and operate scalable storage services used by hundreds of millions of users, ensuring high availability and reliability.

The role requires ownership of features from design through delivery, collaboration with cross-functional partners, and participation in an on-call rotation to handle alerts and incidents across a globally distributed environment.