Site Reliability Engineering, Radar Engineering

Lex; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Comprehensive training

On-call rotation support

Job summary

Apple seeks an early‑career Site Reliability Engineer to help build and maintain the Radar infrastructure, Apple’s unified platform for bug tracking and work management. You’ll monitor, troubleshoot, and improve microservices to keep the system fast, reliable, and healthy across teams in California, Texas, and Ireland.

Join a collaborative, mentorship‑driven environment with training on Apple’s development practices.

Qualifications

• Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, Java, or similar language.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with version control (Git) and SDLC understanding.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the health and performance of Radar’s services, and respond to alerts and incidents.
• Build and improve dashboards, alerting, run books, and telemetry.
• Investigate production issues and contribute to root cause analysis and follow‑up fixes.
• Automate operational tasks with scripts and tooling.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation with support from senior engineers.
• Follow and help improve the team’s operational best practices.

Skills

Python

Bash

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Summary

Do you want to have a significant impact on how work is done at Apple? Radar is used by every major organization across Apple to help teams organize and track their work. As Apple's primary tool for defining, tracking, and testing issues, Radar has been used for decades across various teams, including hardware and software engineering. It serves as a unified platform for bug tracking, test case management, and product management, facilitating seamless coordination among team members. The Radar Engineering team at Apple seeks an early-career Site Reliability Engineer to help build and maintain the infrastructure that services Radar.

Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer for Radar, you will help keep Apple’s platform for product development, bug tracking, and work management available, fast, and healthy. Radar is a high‑traffic, business‑critical system used by teams across all of Apple, and when it is down, engineering across the company feels it. Reliability is the job.

You will join a growing team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. In our highly collaborative environment, you will work closely with a team of passionate builders to deliver end‑to‑end features critical to Apple’s engineering workflows. You will receive structured mentorship, comprehensive training in Apple’s development practices, and the support to learn and develop your skills quickly.

You will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the infrastructure behind a complex microservices ecosystem. You will respond to incidents, build alerting and dashboards, and learn how a platform at this scale stays stable while it constantly evolves. As you ramp up, you will take on increasing ownership of services, help drive root cause analysis, and automate away the work that keeps the platform running.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the health and performance of Radar’s services, and respond to alerts and incidents.
• Build and improve dashboards, alerting, run books, and telemetry.
• Investigate production issues and contribute to root cause analysis and follow‑up fixes.
• Automate operational tasks with scripts and tooling.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation with support from senior engineers.
• Follow and help improve the team’s operational best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, Java, or similar language.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals.
• Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, containers, or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
• Interest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI‑assisted operations tools.
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.

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Role Number: 200688460-1418