Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Automation for Cloud

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in San Diego to design and operate highly available customer‑facing services. You will collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable infrastructure, monitor production systems, and drive automation across the stack.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux and networking knowledge, and experience with Kubernetes. This role requires ownership, collaboration, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment at

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps or similar role.
• Fluency with Linux, networking, and systems management.
• Automation experience across stack and CI/CD.
• Experience scaling distributed systems in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage with product teams to design resilient, scalable infrastructure.
• Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production environments.
• Collaborate on code, architecture reviews, and process improvements.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve reliability, security, and performance.
• Develop automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor services.

Skills

5+ years in SRE/DevOps

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Java/Python/Go

Automation

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in San Diego to design and operate highly available customer‑facing services. You will collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable infrastructure, monitor production systems, and drive automation across the stack.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux and networking knowledge, and experience with Kubernetes. This role requires ownership, collaboration, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment at