Senior SRE: AI-Driven Compute Platform

Apple Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure for Apple’s services in Seattle. You will focus on VM lifecycle management and bare metal provisioning within a highly distributed environment.

You will design automation, operate production and non-production compute, and collaborate across engineering, QA, and program management teams while leveraging AI-enabled automation to accelerate triage and tooling in production workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
• 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software
• Strong experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes
• Highly proficient in Go or Python
• Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others
• Experienced with highly distributed unix systems

Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement innovative solutions around VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a highly distributed environment
• Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production compute environments
• Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime
• Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure as well as other routine processes
• Leverage AI to gain insight across large systems and build tools that can be used in a production environment
• Interact with and support partner teams, including engineering, QA, and program management

Skills

SRE infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

Go

Python

OpenStack

KVM / hypervisor

Kubernetes

Unix systems

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance compute infrastructure for Apple’s services in Seattle. You will focus on VM lifecycle management and bare metal provisioning within a highly distributed environment.

You will design automation, operate production and non-production compute, and collaborate across engineering, QA, and program management teams while leveraging AI-enabled automation to accelerate triage and tooling in production workflows.