Site Reliability Engineering Leader - Security, Apple Service Engineering

Apple; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 239,000 - 361,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Leader to enhance the reliability of critical security infrastructure. This role involves leading a dedicated SRE team, focusing on the design and management of security services that ensure operational excellence. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to implement security measures and automation tools, contributing to a robust security posture. If you are passionate about engineering and have a strong background in reliability and security, this opportunity offers the chance to make a significant impact on millions of users globally. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and excellence.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses

Qualifications

• 8+ years in engineering management with experience in SRE teams.
• Proficient in Python, Golang, Java, or Rust, and understanding of SRE principles.

Responsibilities

• Oversee critical security infrastructure services and improve reliability.
• Lead a global SRE team to support security services and incident response.

Skills

Engineering Management

SRE Principles

Python

Golang

Java

Rust

Infrastructure Security

Incident Response

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering Leader - Security, Apple Service Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Aug 02, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200561322

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineering Leader to continue our focus in providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! The services that this team manages are foundational security services. From host access and disk encryption to identity and authentication, these services are both critical for operational, as well as securing Apple's fleet and protecting our most critical data. You would lead a new SRE team dedicated to these security services, while partnering closely with the Security Development team, to bring up and mature new services as part of our infrastructure investments.

Description

The SRE organization requires a strong SRE leader for its rapidly growing Security SRE team. In this role, you will oversee critical security infrastructure services, and focus on improving the reliability and manageability of these services. You’ll establish a global SRE team to support these services. You’ll be a senior engineering leader within the Infrastructure organization. You will lead the SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of critical security infrastructure services, and improve their reliability, observability and manageability. These services are an important set of services responsible for all of Apple infrastructure; therefore, evolved approaches to changes, reliability, and resiliency are required for this role. The SRE teams are responsible for reliability and performance of on-prem and cloud-based services. You’ll collaborate with multi-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain security measures, incident response protocols, and automation tools to strengthen our organization's overall security posture.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 8 years plus engineering management experience.
2. 5 years experience managing SRE teams, managing mission critical production services, with progressively larger charters.
3. Demonstrated success leading SRE teams, and managing infrastructure development engineers.
4. Understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts.
5. Proficient in at least one of Python, Golang, Java, or Rust. Experience working in a standard SDLC.
6. Understanding of key Infrastructure Security concepts and principles.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Proven experience with large scale, highly available, distributed, and fault tolerant systems.
2. Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
3. Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization (CNCF Kubernetes Administrator or equivalent).
4. Deep knowledge of Linux security primitives, systems, packaging, container security and SELinux.
5. Understanding of MacOS security primitives.
6. BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment).
7. Prior experience in security related fields (or equivalent experience) Certs like OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, etc. helpful but not vital.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $239,700 and $360,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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.