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Site Reliability Engineer - Kafka

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

The Apple Service Engineering – Data Streaming SRE team seeks Site Reliability Engineers to develop processes, tools, and automation for managing distributed systems in production, focusing on Kafka infrastructure and platform services with low latency data delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Understand core SRE concepts: Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management
  • Deep and wide performance engineering (design concepts, profile-guided optimization)
  • Service lifecycle management across bare metal, EC2 virtualized, and Kubernetes platforms
  • Prepare alert handling procedures, run-books, and collaborate with other SRE team members
  • Excellent communication and customer focus when engaging with internal platform customers
  • Collaborate with globally distributed colleagues
  • Develop and maintain Kafka infrastructure or similar data services
  • Contribute to automation tooling, deployment architecture, monitoring dashboards, and safety/stability improvements for large-scale systems
  • Define metrics, targets, and opportunities for optimization; ship reliable services for customers
  • Demonstrate willingness to learn and implement new technologies

Qualifications

  • 5 or more years of experience in support of internet-facing production services and distributed systems via deployments, On Call and Incident Management
  • 5 or more years of experience running large scale infrastructure with heavy automation tooling
  • 5 or more years of experience troubleshooting and performance deep dive analysis
  • Operational experience managing services at scale on Kubernetes
  • Proficient in Java, Go (golang), Python
  • Operational experience deploying in and running on Datacenter and Cloud architectures (networking topologies, host placement strategies, failure modes); design of multi-datacenter systems; failure domains; wide-area networking
  • Self motivated, inquisitive with an aptitude to learn new technologies quickly and effectively
  • Demonstrated expertise developing and troubleshooting distributed systems and database storage engines
  • Experience developing critical internet services and/or platform infrastructure
  • Experience with AWS, GCP and IaC such as Terraform
  • Experience managing messaging services such as Kafka or other Data services
  • Proficient in Java, Go (golang) & Python

Skills

Required:MonitoringPerformance engineeringKafka / Data servicesKubernetesJavaPythonAWS / GCP
Nice to have:Go (Golang)Terraform

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance eligibility
  • Apple discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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