Senior SRE - Cloud Compute & VM Orchestration (AI-Driven)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation assistance

Medical and dental coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design and build VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning for a highly distributed compute platform supporting Apple services.

You will operate and optimize production and non-production environments, drive automation, and collaborate with multiple engineering teams. The role emphasizes AI-assisted automation, triage tooling, and scalable infrastructure to support iCloud, Apple Music, and Maps services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.
• 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

Go

Python

OpenStack

KVM

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Automation

Unix systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced Degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design and build VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning for a highly distributed compute platform supporting Apple services.

You will operate and optimize production and non-production environments, drive automation, and collaborate with multiple engineering teams. The role emphasizes AI-assisted automation, triage tooling, and scalable infrastructure to support iCloud, Apple Music, and Maps services.