Site Reliability Engineer
About the role
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build and support highly available customer-facing services within Apple Services Engineering. Apply SRE best practices to ensure availability, reliability, and performance of systems and services. Engage with product teams, operate and monitor production/non-production environments, automate provisioning and monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery.
Responsibilities
- Engage with product teams to understand requirements, design, and implement resilient and scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of production and non-production environments.
- Collaborate with other engineers on code, infrastructure, design reviews, and process enhancements.
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance.
- Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor Apple services.
- Participate in an on-call rotation providing hands-on technical expertise during service-impacting events.
- Contribute to capacity planning, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Approach operational problems with a software engineering mindset.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of demonstrated expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Ops or DevOps-focused role.
- Understanding of SRE principles, includes monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, capacity planning, automation and toil reduction.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language - Python, Go or Java.
- Experience managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
- Experience with microservices architecture and container orchestration using Kubernetes or similar technologies.
- BS or MS in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience.
- Experience running Tier 1 services for 24/7 support.
- Strong understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals, networking principles, and system management.
- Strong sense of ownership, with a desire to communicate and collaborate with other engineers and teams.
Skills
Benefits
- Accessibility-forward culture and benefits
- Career development opportunities
- Competitive compensation and benefits typical of Apple
About Apple
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