Senior Data Platform Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Data Platform in Austin, TX. You will design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure supporting services like Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, and Maps.

You’ll work with a cross-functional team to implement reliable deployments, observability, and automated operations across on-premises and cloud environments. Strong coding and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent.
• 5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment.
• Proficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platforms.
• Experience operating production applications at scale, including performance testing, HA, DR concepts, capacity planning, and distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Linux OS, containers and virtualization, networking protocols, and components.
• Strong ownership and integrity with clear communication and collaboration.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving using the scientific method.

Responsibilities

• Solve problems using empirical data, teamwork, and your expertise.
• Collaborate with partner engineering teams to deliver seamless experiences.
• Work with open source, vendor licensed, and proprietary tools to improve operations.
• Apply a consistent incident management process across data platform services and derive SLOs from observability metrics.
• Balance long-term solutions with business priorities.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Linux

Troubleshooting

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Ali Cloud

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Data Platform in Austin, TX. You will design, build, and operate scalable data infrastructure supporting services like Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, and Maps.

You’ll work with a cross-functional team to implement reliable deployments, observability, and automated operations across on-premises and cloud environments. Strong coding and collaboration skills are essential.