Data Platform SRE — Spark, Flink & Cloud

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for its Data Platform, focusing on big data engines and catalog/governance layers used to power analytics across the company. You will operate and support the team’s portfolio from ML/AI platform services to multi-cloud infrastructure and collaborate with internal customers daily.

You will be the go-to expert for Spark, Flink, Trino, Notebooks, and catalog services, translating complex issues into clear resolutions while owning reliability roadmaps and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
• 1-4 years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure-focused role.
• Proficient in Python; working knowledge of Golang a plus.
• Deep understanding of one or more Big Data technologies (Spark, Flink, Airflow, Trino, Notebooks).
• Experience with Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS or GCP).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to non-expert customers.
• Solid grounding in SRE principles, with prior on-call, production-support, or customer-facing support role experience.

Skills

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Big Data

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Trino

Notebooks

Communication

SRE principles

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

PagerDuty

Glue Catalog

Job description

Apple seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for its Data Platform, focusing on big data engines and catalog/governance layers used to power analytics across the company. You will operate and support the team’s portfolio from ML/AI platform services to multi-cloud infrastructure and collaborate with internal customers daily.

You will be the go-to expert for Spark, Flink, Trino, Notebooks, and catalog services, translating complex issues into clear resolutions while owning reliability roadmaps and