Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise Technology Services

APPLE SOUTH ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

APPLE SOUTH ASIA PTE. LTD. is seeking a Senior SRE Engineer to join a horizontal Platform Engineering Ops group responsible for scalable distributed applications.

The role combines strategic engineering and data science with hands-on work, including building ML pipelines and privacy-focused crypto strategies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, security, and performance across Apple platforms serving billions of customers daily.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands on experience in at least one object oriented language, preferably Java/JEE.
• Hands on experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• Strong programming and scripting fundamentals (Python/Bash/LUA).
• Strong relational and non-relational database fundamentals with PL/SQL experience.

Responsibilities

• Review hardware, software infrastructure and application functionality to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Develop and maintain application services and drive incident management.
• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring for applications, integrations and anomalies.
• Implement and roll out high performance, large scale security platforms.
• Onboard and maintain expansive data pipelines for various security platforms.
• Analyze and troubleshoot security detections to minimize false positives and improve detection.
• Collaborate with IT, business teams, production support, engineers, DBAs and QA to ensure platform/application reliability.

Skills

Java/JEE

Automation tools

Python/Bash/Lua

Databases (PL/SQL)

SRE/DevOps concepts

Monitoring & Observability

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Splunk

Grafana

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Summary

The promise of working at Apple is the opportunity to do your life’s best work and be part of something big. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal platforms, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Emerging Technology Services team productizes upcoming software and evangelizes it to the Apple community. We are an SRE/DevOps/Operational Intelligence team rolled into one. The platforms and software trends that we create are technology pillars that support Apple. From eCommerce to reporting systems we make it seamless for disparate systems talk to each other at an unfathomable scale and speed. From Load Balancers, perimeter security, to Integrations and API gateways we support and help adoption of platforms. The SRE Engineer position will be part of a horizontal Platform Engineering Ops group focused on a breadth of technologies and applications including very highly scalable distributed applications. The position requires strategic engineering and data science skills, along with hands-on technical work. The candidate will get to explore and learn about security domain, participate in building machine learning pipelines, phish/fraud/anomaly detection models, crypto strategies for privacy,applydata science skills to petabytes of data. As a member of our fast-paced group, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape and improve the software that allows our products to surprise and delight billions of Apple’s customers every day! If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact, and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, a career with Apple will be your dream job.

Description

The SRE Engineer position will be part of a horizontal Platform Engineering Ops group focused on a breadth of technologies and applications including very highly scalable distributed applications. The position requires strategic engineering and data science skills, along with hands-on technical work. The candidate will get to explore and learn aboutsecurity domain, participate in building machine learning pipelines, phish/fraud/anomaly detection models, crypto strategies for privacy,applydata science skills to petabytes of data.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing hardware, software infrastructure and application functionality foridentifying and optimizing performance bottlenecks
• Developing and maintaining application services and driving incident management
• Designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring for applications, integrations and anomalies
• Involved in implementation and rollout of high performance, large scale security platforms
• Onboard, maintain expansive data pipelines for various security platforms
• Involved in analysis and troubleshooting of security detections to minimize false positives and improve detection
• Working closely with Cross functional IT organization, Business group, Apple's production support team, application engineers, systems engineers, database administrators and QA team to effectively ensure implementation and reliability of Platforms/Applications

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Hands on experience in at least one of the object oriented language. Preferably Java/JEE
• Hands on experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Strong programming and scripting fundamentals (Python/Bash/LUA)
• Strong relational and Non-relation Database fundamentals with hands on PL/SQL experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills
• Java and JVM technologies runtime configurations and troubleshooting is a plus
• Familiarity with Modern web services architectures, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure and distributed storage systems (ScaleIO, Amazon S3)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus,Splunk, Grafana, Cloudwatch) is a plus
• Understanding of CI/CD, Release Engineering and DevOps
• Good understanding of various machine language algorithms and patterns is desired
• Cryptographic algorithms
• In-depth experience in writing, understanding and reverse engineering regular expressions to detect patterns
• Strong understanding of how TLS, mTLS and various industry standards for secure communications over the wire
• Skilled in researching and understanding vulnerabilities and threats posted in open forum and translate them into system design/implementation to detect and prevent them

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.