Senior SRE Engineer: Cloud Compute & AI-Driven Automation

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to design and enhance compute infrastructure at scale, focusing on VM lifecycle management and bare metal provisioning for Apple’s services.

You will work with world‑class engineers to build a platform that powers iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps, while leveraging AI-assisted automation and collaborating with engineering, QA, and program management teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering-related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Automation advocate with ownership of reducing operational load via software.
• Experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in Go or Python.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple engineering teams and mentor others.
• Experience with highly distributed UNIX systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in a distributed environment.
• Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production compute environments.
• Prepare alert handling procedures and runbooks; collaborate with SRE teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations to minimize downtime.
• Automate deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure and routine processes.
• Leverage AI to gain insights and build production tools for SRE workflows.
• Collaborate with partner teams including engineering, QA, and program management.

Skills

Go or Python

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Strong communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

OpenStack

KVM

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to design and enhance compute infrastructure at scale, focusing on VM lifecycle management and bare metal provisioning for Apple’s services.

You will work with world‑class engineers to build a platform that powers iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps, while leveraging AI-assisted automation and collaborating with engineering, QA, and program management teams.