Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Apple Maps

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior SRE leader to set the strategic direction for our Maps serving infrastructure. This is a leadership role shaping where our infrastructure goes next, how our SRE practice evolves, and how we build teams and partnerships to achieve it.

You will lead an organization of SREs and own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for serving platforms in collaboration with engineering, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years in SRE or related fields, with 10+ years in senior management.
• Experience leading SRE orgs for large-scale, user-facing services.
• Proven ability to communicate at the executive level and negotiate across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction for Maps serving infra and SRE practice.
• Lead an SRE org to ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to shape the roadmap.

Skills

Senior management

SRE leadership

Linux fundamentals

Distributed systems

Networking at scale

AI tooling

LLM code evaluation

Executive communication

AI strategy execution

Incident & capacity planning

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

AIOps tooling

LLM-based tooling

Job description

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a senior SRE leader to set the strategic direction for our Maps serving infrastructure. This is not just a "keep the lights on" role — this is a leadership position that defines where our infrastructure goes next, how our SRE practice evolves, and how we build the teams and partnerships to get there. You will work closely with engineering, product, and operations partners across Apple to shape the roadmap for our serving platform. You will lead an organization of SREs and hold responsibility for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of some of Apple's most visible services. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how SRE is practiced — from incident detection and resolution to capacity planning and toil elimination — and we\'re looking for a leader who shares that conviction and can drive that transformation across the organization.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

10-15+ years of experience in SRE or adjacent disciplines (systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, production engineering), with at least 10 years in senior management roles Demonstrated experience leading SRE organizations supporting large-scale, user-facing distributed services Strong technical proficiency in Linux fundamentals, distributed systems concepts, networking, and infrastructure at scale Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML tooling or LLM-based solutions to improve SRE or infrastructure operations Ability to read and understand code produced by LLMs and evaluate its suitability for production use Has defined or is actively executing an AI strategy for a large SRE organization Proven ability to communicate at the executive level and negotiate across organizational boundaries

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and Kubernetes at scale Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or infrastructure architecture Track record of driving cultural and process transformation within SRE organizations Experience building or deploying AI-powered operational tooling (AIOps, intelligent alerting, automated diagnostics) Hands-on experience with LLM-based developer/SRE productivity tools Track record of driving AI adoption within engineering teams Experience operating services at Apple-scale user volumes