Site Reliability Engineer – Ad Platforms – job_id_000043 Job ID- 77

Apple; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer based in California, Pasadena, to support advertising technology systems. This role involves ensuring system uptime, scalability, and collaboration with developers.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in production services, proficiency in Java, Python, or Go, and knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes. Apple values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production services.
• 2+ years in one of Java, Python, or Go.
• 2+ years operating Linux based systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve infrastructure monitoring for reliability.
• Engage with application engineering teams for service reliability.
• Drive production readiness and improve capacity planning.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Linux

AWS EKS

AWS MSK

Job description

Austin, Texas, United States

Summary

At Apple, we work every day to build products that enrich people’s lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our technology and services power advertising in Apple News and Ads in the App Store. Our offline pipelines are highly performant, deployed to handle high‑volume asynchronous events at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. The Ad Platforms team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a great opportunity. Our mission is to enable Ad Platforms to deliver advertisements in a reliable and scalable way that results in awesome user experiences.

Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for providing the platform for critically important ad‑tech systems to maintain constant uptime, scale seamlessly, and allow for new applications and services to flourish. The successful candidate will be highly self‑motivated with a passion for excellence, quality and detail. The SRE will not only support operations, but also work closely with the developers and architects within the team to aid in the design and assist with the implementation to improve stability, security and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and improve our infrastructure and application monitoring and observability capabilities that results in improving our reliability.
• Engage with application engineering teams to improve service operability and reliability, on‑call efficiencies, drive incident management, and post‑mortem analysis.
• Drive production readiness, and improve key areas like capacity planning, configuration management, and observability.
• Design and improve architectures of new and existing systems based on the principles of reliability and high availability with extensive logging and observability.
• Develop expertise in Apple Infrastructure and best practices and bring that to Ad Platforms to run a world class distributed systems.
• Create tooling and automation to improve the operations and operability of our infrastructure and applications.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience supporting internet‑facing production services and distributed systems
• 2+ years in one of Java or Python or Go
• 2+ years in operating Linux based systems, with a proven understanding of its internals
• Working knowledge of container platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience building and running infrastructures on AWS, including using services like EKS, MSK
• Experience in Infrastructure as a code like Terraform
• Experience in leading the deep‑divide and troubleshooting of production issues with an active diagnostic call
• Demonstrated a strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through clear communication.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering field or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience supporting internet‑facing production services and distributed systems.
• 4+ years in one of Java or Python or Go
• Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering field or equivalent

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.