Apple · 14 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer — Info Apps
Cupertino, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$147K/yr - $272K/yr
5+ years expApple is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to oversee the performance and availability of core backend services in various applications. The role involves designing telemetry systems, defining SLOs/SLIs, reducing operational load through automation, and mentoring junior team members.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Digital MediaElectronicsMedia and EntertainmentAppsBroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Designing and implementing the next generation of our telemetry and alerting systems
Defining SLOs/SLIs and ensuring our monitoring strategy captures the true health of the user experience
Reducing operational load through software; if you have to do it twice, you’ll want to automate it
Partnering with App Dev teams to influence the 'design for reliability' phase of the software development lifecycle
Acting as a technical lead for junior members and off-shore partners, providing guidance on runbook development and disaster recovery
Qualification
Required
5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles with a proven track record of managing high-traffic, internet-facing production environments
Deep experience building and operating container orchestration systems (EKS/GKE/Vanilla K8s). You should be comfortable troubleshooting from the networking layer up to the application pod
Expert knowledge of the 4 Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation). Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk is essential
Hands-on experience designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Strong ability to code at a scripting level (Python or Go preferred) to automate toil and build self-healing systems
Experience leading incident response, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and implementing blameless post-mortems to improve system resilience
Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to manage immutable infrastructure
Preferred
Specialized experience operating and tuning Solr or Elasticsearch at scale
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, Load Balancing (ELB/ALB), and Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, or Postgres in a distributed environment
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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