Senior SRE Technical Lead - Data Platform

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the Apple Data Platform SRE / Apple Services Engineering to drive reliability across Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lakes, and Airflow. You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and lead platform-wide tooling and incident response in a large-scale analytics environment from Cupertino.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-group collaboration, and the development of shared automation to raise the reliability bar for ADP.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering at scale.
• 5+ years in technical leadership roles with cross-team influence.
• Broad expertise across Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lake architectures, S3-compatible storage, and Airflow.
• Experience defining and driving SLO/error budget frameworks and reliability practices across multiple teams or services.
• Demonstrable programming skills to develop shared tooling and set engineering standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the SRE Technical Lead across ADP, partnering with vertical SRE teams and software engineering orgs to ensure reliability standards are applied across the full data platform.
• Define and drive adoption of SLO frameworks, error budget policies, and incident management practices across ADP services.
• Provide architectural review and reliability guidance for new services and major platform changes, identifying risks and influencing design before production.
• Lead development of shared observability, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tooling benefiting multiple ADP teams.
• Identify and eliminate systemic toil and instability across the platform; advocate for platform-wide reliability improvements.
• Mentor and grow SRE engineers across teams, fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Represent ADP SRE in cross-organizational forums, communicating technical strategy and reliability posture to ASE and Apple leadership.
• Programming in Python and Golang, supported by Generative AI tooling, to accelerate development of shared automation and tools.
• Production on-call and incident management responsibilities, including high-severity cross-platform incidents.

Skills

Python

Golang

Linux

SRE leadership

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ceph

Kubernetes

Hadoop

HBase

Spark

Airflow

Data Lake

Job description

Apple is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the Apple Data Platform SRE / Apple Services Engineering to drive reliability across Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lakes, and Airflow. You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and lead platform-wide tooling and incident response in a large-scale analytics environment from Cupertino.

This role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-group collaboration, and the development of shared automation to raise the reliability bar for ADP.