Platform Reliability Engineer - GenAI & ML Infra

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Relocation

Discounted products

Educational reimbursement

Medical coverage

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, California is seeking a Software Engineer to join Platform Reliability Engineering for AiDP.

You will design, build, and operate scalable, multi-tenant systems for GenAI, ML, and big data workloads, leveraging hybrid cloud environments and open source technologies to ensure reliability and performance. The role involves incident response, on-call rotations, cross-team collaboration, and driving observability and resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Python, Go, Java, or similar).
• Strong expertise in distributed systems architecture with focus on reliability, scalability, and containerization.

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

Systems programming

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Spark

Flink

Ray

Trino

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, California is seeking a Software Engineer to join Platform Reliability Engineering for AiDP.

You will design, build, and operate scalable, multi-tenant systems for GenAI, ML, and big data workloads, leveraging hybrid cloud environments and open source technologies to ensure reliability and performance. The role involves incident response, on-call rotations, cross-team collaboration, and driving observability and resilience.