Senior SRE — Build Resilient, Scalable Cloud Services

Apple, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Discretionary bonuses/stock options

Relocation assistance

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate highly available, customer-facing services. You’ll work with product teams to build resilient infrastructure, automate provisioning, and contribute to capacity planning across cloud environments.

You bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, Linux fundamentals, and proficiency in Java, Python, or Go, plus experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps focused role.
• BS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 5+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of Linux operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management.
• Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
• Familiarity with micro‑services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Awareness of key security principles including encryption, keys (types and exchange protocols).
• Understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
• Strong sense of ownership, with a desire to communicate and collaborate with other engineers and teams.
• Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems, while working with partners and their team to iteratively find solutions.

Responsibilities

• Engage with our product teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production environments.
• Collaborate on code, infrastructure, design reviews, and process enhancements
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance.
• Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor Apple services.
• Participate in an oncall rotation providing hands‑on technical expertise during service impacting events.
• Contribute to capacity planning, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises
• Approach operational problems with a software engineering mindset.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Linux

Java/Python/Go

On-call experience

Security principles

Ownership & collaboration

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate highly available, customer-facing services. You’ll work with product teams to build resilient infrastructure, automate provisioning, and contribute to capacity planning across cloud environments.

You bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, Linux fundamentals, and proficiency in Java, Python, or Go, plus experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems.