Senior SRE — Global Services & Automation

Apple Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 142,300 - 263,300

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental coverage
Retirement benefits
Employee stock purchase plan
Tuition reimbursement
Relocation support

Job summary

Apple is seeking a seasoned Service Reliability Engineer to join the Apple Services Engineering team in Seattle, WA. You’ll design, tune, and operate multi‑tiered systems, ensuring performance, stability, and availability across global data pipelines for Apple Music, TV+, App Store, and more.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong AWS and Kubernetes experience, and a track record of on‑call incident response. This role offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps role.
  • BS degree in computer science or equivalent; MS degree preferred.
  • Extensive experience running services in a large scale *nix environment.
  • Understanding of SRE principles with prior on‑call experience.
  • Experience managing applications on AWS & Kubernetes; familiarity with Hadoop/Spark/Flink.

Responsibilities

  • Configure, tune, and fix multi‑tiered systems for performance and availability.
  • Manage jobs and applications on bare‑metal and cloud platforms to deliver data processing.
  • Build automation and monitoring to enable self‑healing systems and low-latency services.
  • Troubleshoot application, network, and system performance issues.
  • Collaborate on fast-paced projects supporting Apple's services.

Skills

SRE principles
On-call experience
Performance tuning
DevOps practices
Large-scale systems

Education

BS in Computer Science
MS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS
Kubernetes
Hadoop
Spark
Flink

Job description

Apple is seeking a seasoned Service Reliability Engineer to join the Apple Services Engineering team in Seattle, WA. You’ll design, tune, and operate multi‑tiered systems, ensuring performance, stability, and availability across global data pipelines for Apple Music, TV+, App Store, and more.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong AWS and Kubernetes experience, and a track record of on‑call incident response. This role offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

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