Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ASE

Cupertino Until 9/21/2026 3+ years exp First posted July 23, 2026 Last posted July 23, 2026
Job description

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work on some of the world's most impactful internet services including the  AppStore,  Music, Books,  Podcasts, and  Fitness+  within Apple Services Engineering. These are revenue-critical, globally scaled services used by billions of devices worldwide.

Description

As an SRE, your mission is to ensure these services are always available, performant, and ready for growth. You will solve complex problems at scale, develop deep troubleshooting expertise, and keep a relentless focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity. You will drive a culture of operational excellence by replacing toil with automation and by building systems that are resilient by design.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
3+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
2+ years of experience leading technical projects and providing engineering leadership
Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or shell scripting)

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Experience with observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning at scale
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
Proven track record of driving automation to reduce operational toil in high-traffic production environments

About this role

Summary

Ensure Apple services are available, performant, reliable, and scalable through automation and troubleshooting.

Job title

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ASE

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

must be in Cupertino, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonGoJavashell scripting

Preferred skills

observability toolingSLOs/SLIscapacity planningcloud infrastructureKubernetesCI/CD

Specializations

distributed systemsautomationcloud infrastructureKubernetesobservability
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City