Senior Infrastructure SRE

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation help

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a seasoned Storage SRE to design, operate, and scale distributed storage systems powering core Apple services.

You will own projects, contribute to on-call rotations across timezones, and collaborate with a two-shard team in the US and UK while balancing performance, reliability, and efficiency in a large-scale cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
• The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.
• Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)
• Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems and experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of projects or deliverables; design solutions and build buy-in; ensure timely delivery.
• Comfortable giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist in delivering designs and driving standards.
• Handle on-call duties and escalations to maintain high service availability.
• Coordinate across two time-zone shards (UK and US) to deliver projects.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Linux internals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

LVM

XFS

ext4

S3

Ceph

Gluster

NFS

Job description

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple’s most critical services. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges.As a Storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these problems using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals. Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management.

Description

We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Storage SRE team at Apple. You are solution-oriented and have a passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.

Responsibilities

• The role involves understanding the team's priorities; taking ownership of projects or deliverables; designing solutions and building buy-in for those designs; and successful and timely delivery of those designs. Members of our team are expected to be comfortable giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist them in the delivery of their designs, features and projects, as well as driving technical standards across the distributed team in collaboration with key stakeholders.


• The team has an on-call rota including the week-ends and the successful candidate should expect to handle alerts and other escalations in order to maintain a high level of availability and functionality for our provided services. The team is divided into two shards in UK and US and cross-timezone meetings are a core feature of how our team collaborates, reaches agreements, and executes to deliver projects.


• At Apple Cloud, we run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. We think critically and strive to balance


• the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience


• 5+ years of experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment


• The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.


• Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)


• Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems and experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.


• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker)


• Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks


• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes


• Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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