ML Infrastructure Service Reliability Engineer
About the role
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the ML Infrastructure team, responsible for maintaining Apple’s large ML compute platform, multi-cloud storage abstraction and caching platform, supporting critical machine learning training workloads across the Apple ecosystem. Focus areas include Kubernetes-based operations, cloud object storage, automation, and end-to-end reliability from low-level nodes to network architecture, ensuring high availability, resilience, and efficiency at scale.
Responsibilities
- Participates in a rotating on-call schedule, including occasional weekend coverage when necessary
- Leads design, development, and delivery of infrastructure projects aligned with objectives
- Automates manual operations to improve efficiency and reliability
- Deploys, supports, and monitors new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
- Fosters open dialogue and constructive technical feedback to drive team growth and continuous improvement
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in building, operating and scaling a large application in a private, public or hybrid cloud environment
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes with hands-on experience using GKE or EKS
- Proficient in Python, Go, or Rust for designing, developing, and releasing code
- Practical experience with object storage technologies (Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage)
- Strong background in designing and troubleshooting complex networking in public/private clouds
- Solid understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems architecture
- Automation mindset and ability to iterate on processes
- Experience deploying large-scale distributed applications and managing diverse system environments with configuration management or delivery tools (e.g., Spinnaker, Helm, Flux)
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration and management using Kubernetes
Skills
Benefits
- Accessibility-focused culture
- Comprehensive benefits and digital tools supporting diverse perspectives
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