Kubernetes SRE Engineer - Platform Reliability & Automation

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and manage a large Kubernetes platform powering Apple’s services.

You’ll partner with engineering teams to solve problems using open-source and in-house tooling, learn to write well-tested code, and gradually own features. You will engage with the upstream community, gain hands-on experience with production-scale systems, and build the technical foundation to support service teams across Apple.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.
• Proficiency in Python or Go scripting.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
• Write and maintain operational tooling to improve reliability and reduce manual intervention.
• Implement and maintain reliability standards for the platform: SLOs, error budgets, alerting philosophy, upgrade and rollout strategy, and run-books.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, revision control workflows, and configuration management practices.
• Take on-call, troubleshoot production issues, and follow up on post-incident action items.
• Help enforce security best practices, OS hardening, and compliance standards across the fleet.

Skills

Linux administration

Containerization

Python

Go

Networking fundamentals

Git

OS security hardening

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Thanos

Splunk

Puppet/Ansible

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and manage a large Kubernetes platform powering Apple’s services.

You’ll partner with engineering teams to solve problems using open-source and in-house tooling, learn to write well-tested code, and gradually own features. You will engage with the upstream community, gain hands-on experience with production-scale systems, and build the technical foundation to support service teams across Apple.