Senior Kubernetes SRE Engineer — Platform Reliability

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) seeks a senior SRE software engineer to own the architectural direction of Kubernetes internals powering Apple services. You will define controllers and namespace management, raise reliability, and contribute to upstream Kubernetes.

The role includes mentoring and building AI-assisted tooling for triage and automation. You will drive SLOs, incident response, and runbooks while collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape the Compute roadmap and ensure scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication. Ability to present designs and influence leadership.
• Deep experience building and operating core Kubernetes components (apiserver, etcd, scheduler, kubelet, controller-runtime).
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical area end-to-end from design to production.
• Expert-level Golang with a track record shipping controllers/operators used by teams.
• Mentoring, design reviews, and building tools to raise engineering capability.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction for controllers and namespace management infrastructure at global scale.
• Find and fix reliability problems beyond upstream defaults; automate and harden the platform.
• Set platform reliability standards: SLOs, error budgets, alerts, upgrades, and runbooks.
• Lead on-call and incident response; drive post-incident improvements.
• Represent Apple upstream in Kubernetes community and drive requirements through design proposals.
• Grow engineers through review and mentoring; lead cross-team technical efforts.
• Advise partner service teams on platform capabilities and trade-offs, shaping Compute roadmap.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Kubernetes/OSS ownership

End-to-end ownership

Golang

Mentoring & design reviews

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Thanos

Grafana

Job description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) seeks a senior SRE software engineer to own the architectural direction of Kubernetes internals powering Apple services. You will define controllers and namespace management, raise reliability, and contribute to upstream Kubernetes.

The role includes mentoring and building AI-assisted tooling for triage and automation. You will drive SLOs, incident response, and runbooks while collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape the Compute roadmap and ensure scale.