Senior Compute SRE

As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Apple, you will be responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and observability of our cloud platform. Your work will ensure the uptime and performance of mission critical systems that serve millions of users every day. We’re looking for a self-motivated engineer, committed to operational excellence and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with developers and architects within the team to build and extend our platform, as well as be a part of rich fabric of people from many different disciplines all invested in building the best cloud platform to run world-class services at scale. We’re building a team of high trust and accountability, and are searching for a like-minded individual who is excited to build foundational capabilities into Apple’s Cloud Platform!

Description

AS AN SRE AT APPLE YOU WILL:

- Build, operate, and scale Apple’s Cloud Platform that powers mission critical services across the globe.

- Accelerate delivery of core services with automation and visibility into release cadences.

- Collaborate with developers to build and release reliable software that manages the lifecycle of customer VMs.

- Drive reliability and excellence of service through CI/CD, production readiness reviews, and incident response.

- Instrument, analyze, and iterate on performance bottlenecks across distributed systems.

- Actively participate in oncall rotations, capacity planning, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises.

- Ensure uptime SLOs with well-architected systems and rigorous observability.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.

8+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.

Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.

Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.

Expertise with cloud infrastructure and experience running businesses.

Experience in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed systems.

Proven experience providing 24/7 on-call support and incident management for critical production infrastructure.

Ability to troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack (Profiling, Tracing, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

Expert interpersonal and written communication skills, targeted to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service.