Data Reliability Engineer – Large-Scale Ads Cloud

Apple Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is hiring a Data Site Reliability Engineer to design and manage cloud-based data systems at scale in Apple Ads. You will build reliable infrastructure across AWS services and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive production excellence and cost-efficient operations.

You will contribute to automation, observability and multi-cloud initiatives, helping ensure secure, scalable data platforms for a wide range of Apple services.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of infrastructure engineering focused on building, scaling and operating cloud-based distributed data systems.
• Proven experience running cloud infrastructure built on AWS managed services.
• Experience with OSS data-processing tech like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise and container orchestration experience.
• Experience leveraging ML and GenAI to improve infrastructure and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and manage large-scale distributed data systems on AWS (EMR, EKS, MSK).
• Develop tooling and automation to improve reliability, cost-efficiency and observability.
• Collaborate with advertising, ML and data-platform teams to define infra architecture and resolve issues.
• Lead initiatives to eliminate toil through automation and scalable deployments.
• Contribute to multi-cloud strategy to maintain operational excellence while enabling future innovation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Spark

Kafka

Iceberg

ML/GenAI for Infra

Programming: Java/Python/Scala/Kotlin

Cloud data systems

Tools

Helm

CRD

Job description

Apple Inc. is hiring a Data Site Reliability Engineer to design and manage cloud-based data systems at scale in Apple Ads. You will build reliable infrastructure across AWS services and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive production excellence and cost-efficient operations.

You will contribute to automation, observability and multi-cloud initiatives, helping ensure secure, scalable data platforms for a wide range of Apple services.