Senior SRE – iCloud & Services Platform

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design and operate highly available, customer‑facing services.

You will collaborate with ASE Product SRE teams to improve reliability, security, and performance of the server software stack that powers services like iCloud, Mail, Drive, and more. The role includes on‑call rotations and disaster recovery exercises.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure Ops, 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

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Systems management

Java/Python/Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Security principles

SRE concepts

Ownership & collaboration

Problem solving & communication

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design and operate highly available, customer‑facing services.

You will collaborate with ASE Product SRE teams to improve reliability, security, and performance of the server software stack that powers services like iCloud, Mail, Drive, and more. The role includes on‑call rotations and disaster recovery exercises.