Senior SRE - Scalable Cloud & Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc.; California; On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Education expense reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available customer-facing services within Apple Services Engineering.

You will collaborate with product teams to ensure reliability, implement automation, and manage production and non-production environments in a scalable, secure cloud context. The role emphasizes monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning, with on-call rotations, and opportunities to drive improvements across server software

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.
• Fluency in 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 security principles including encryption, keys and exchange protocols.
• Understanding of SRE principles 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 product teams to design and implement resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production environments.
• Collaborate on code, infrastructure, design reviews, and process enhancements.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve reliability, security, and performance.
• Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor 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 basics

Networking basics

Distributed systems

Java/Python/Go

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available customer-facing services within Apple Services Engineering.

You will collaborate with product teams to ensure reliability, implement automation, and manage production and non-production environments in a scalable, secure cloud context. The role emphasizes monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning, with on-call rotations, and opportunities to drive improvements across server software