Senior SRE Manager, iCloud

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior SRE Manager to lead teams responsible for the reliability and performance of services. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems to enhance operational precision and craft the future of service delivery. Your leadership will be crucial in guiding engineers, managing environments, and advocating best practices in reliability engineering. This opportunity offers a chance to positively impact millions of users while working in a dynamic and inclusive environment that values your growth and contributions.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products

Free services

Educational reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with large scale distributed systems.
• Strong leadership capabilities with excellent problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE teams for reliability and performance of services.
• Manage staging and production environments to maximize availability.
• Promote observability of systems for monitoring and alerting.

Skills

SRE principles

Problem-solving

Leadership

Distributed systems

Systems management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Master's degree in computer science

Tools

Monitoring tools

Cloud services

Job description

Senior SRE Manager, iCloud

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Feb 04, 2025

Role Number: 200589805

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft experiences our customers love and depend on. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds and supports the systems that make many of these daily experiences possible. If you’ve used Apple products, you’ve likely interacted with us. iCloud Services SRE teams are responsible for the systems and services that directly support those customers and their experiences. We focus on availability and automation of key services that run iCloud every minute of every day all around the world!

Description

We are looking for a dedicated and self-motivated individual to join this amazing team. You will be an accomplished builder and leader of teams looking to take on your next challenge. You know SRE and you know what it will take to run services at Apple scale with a high degree of operational precision. This role will position you to help craft the future of how we build and run our services on a global scale. You will have the technical skills to go deep and retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and product goals. We hire high quality leaders and engineers with a diverse set of experiences and abilities for positions on Apple. Our customers count on us to provide extraordinary availability, scalability, and security for services. If you’d like to positively influence millions of customers’ experience of Apple this is the job for you. As a Site Reliability Engineering Manager, responsibilities include:

1. Lead SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of on-prem and cloud-based services
2. Leading and growing the engineers on your team
3. Manage staging and production environments with goal of maximizing availability
4. Promote observability of systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting
5. Advocate best practices of reliability engineering

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with large scale distributed systems
• Demonstrable success leading engineering teams - ideally SRE or Production Engineering
• Knowledge of core operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management
• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts
• Strong leadership capabilities, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• 5+ years professional experience in an engineering leadership position

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent field with 10+ years of experience

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $208,300 and $313,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.