Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Global Backbone

Apple; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Sunnyvale seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the Core Services team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Apple’s backbone network across hardware, software, and tooling with a DevOps mindset.

You’ll collaborate to design resilient hosting architectures, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and implement observability with tracing, logging, metrics and alerting for apps and network devices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming (Python, Bash, Go, Java, or similar).
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of our application and networking platforms, APIs, and integrations.
• Collaborate with the development team to design resilient hosting architectures and streamline CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement observability/monitoring best practices: transaction tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting for apps and network devices.
• Troubleshoot incidents (VM/hosting issues, API failures, authentication, monitoring/alerting failures).
• Promote DevOps culture to improve release velocity and reduce failures.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Scripting

CI/CD tools

Monitoring

Linux

Networking

Cloud platforms

Docker/Kubernetes

Databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Oracle

MongoDB

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Apple in Sunnyvale seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the Core Services team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Apple’s backbone network across hardware, software, and tooling with a DevOps mindset.

You’ll collaborate to design resilient hosting architectures, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and implement observability with tracing, logging, metrics and alerting for apps and network devices.