Platform Reliability Engineer – GenAI & ML Infra

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Apple stock programs

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Software Engineer for Platform Reliability Engineering in AiDP to design, operate, and optimize large-scale distributed systems powering GenAI, ML, and data platforms.

You will own mission-critical platform components, respond to production incidents, and collaborate across teams to shape the future of data and AI infrastructure at Apple. Experience with Kubernetes, Spark, and open source tooling is valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Python, Go, Java, or similar).
• Strong expertise in distributed systems architecture, with deep knowledge of reliability, scalability, and containerization principles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and data processing infrastructure (Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, Ray, Trino, or equivalent technologies).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable multi-tenant systems that support diverse workloads and technologies at enterprise scale
• Own the full lifecycle of infrastructure and platform projects—from architectural design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and optimization
• Operate and optimize high-throughput, mission-critical services to ensure reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to production incidents; diagnose root causes, implement rapid fixes, and drive post-incident improvements
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams to define requirements, validate designs, and deliver customer-impacting features and improvements
• Proactively identify operational bottlenecks and systemic issues; implement preventive measures to reduce incident frequency and improve system resilience
• Establish observability practices and continuously refine operational excellence standards across the platform

Skills

Distributed systems

SRE/DevOps

Python/Go/Java

Kubernetes

Big data

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Spark

Flink

Ray

Trino

Iceberg

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Software Engineer for Platform Reliability Engineering in AiDP to design, operate, and optimize large-scale distributed systems powering GenAI, ML, and data platforms.

You will own mission-critical platform components, respond to production incidents, and collaborate across teams to shape the future of data and AI infrastructure at Apple. Experience with Kubernetes, Spark, and open source tooling is valued.