Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Automation

Apple Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 142,000 - 263,000

Full time

22 hours ago

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Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and support highly available customer-facing services in Seattle. You’ll collaborate with product teams to design resilient infrastructure, monitor production and non-production environments, and automate provisioning and deployment of Apple services.

You'll bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux and networking knowledge, and fluency in Java/Python/Go.

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 (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.