Senior SRE: Scalable, Cloud-Native Services

Apple, Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 142,000 - 263,000

Full time

9 hours ago

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Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and run scalable, highly available services in the Apple Services Engineering group. You will partner with product teams to ensure reliability while shipping features and improving the platform’s resilience.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux and networking knowledge, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments.

Qualifications

5+ years in a 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 and exchange protocols.
Understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.

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.