Senior SRE - Cloud Compute & AI-Driven Automation

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Seattle, WA, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Compute to design, build, and operate scalable VM lifecycle and bare metal infrastructure.

You will join the Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team to ensure services scale globally and stay highly available across iCloud, Maps, and other offerings. You will apply AI-assisted automation to triage and streamline operational workflows, collaborating with software engineers, QA, and product management to reduce toil and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering role focused on infrastructure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Automation advocate with ownership mentality to remove operational load via software
• Strong experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes
• Highly proficient in Go or Python
• Capable of collaborating 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

Go

Python

Kubernetes

OpenStack

KVM

Automation

Unix

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Seattle, WA, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Compute to design, build, and operate scalable VM lifecycle and bare metal infrastructure.

You will join the Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Compute team to ensure services scale globally and stay highly available across iCloud, Maps, and other offerings. You will apply AI-assisted automation to triage and streamline operational workflows, collaborating with software engineers, QA, and product management to reduce toil and