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Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Ads

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, California$150.4k - $225.3kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for providing a stable, scalable platform for mission-critical ad-tech systems within Apple Ads. Collaborates with developers and architects to improve stability, security, and scalability, with emphasis on uptime, automation, and observability across AWS-based infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services such as EKS, MSK, and ElastiCache.
  • Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence.
  • Design, provision, and maintain resilient infrastructure by combining Terraform for core foundational resources with GitOps workflows and Kubernetes-native control planes (e.g., Argo CD, Flux, Helm, kro, ACK, Crossplane, etc.) to enable declarative, automated, and drift-free continuous reconciliation.
  • Lead or participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce future risk.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong programming skills in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java.
  • Proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep knowledge of its internals.
  • Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
  • Strong foundation in SRE concepts: Monitoring, alerting, and observability, incident response and root cause analysis, error budgets, SLAs/SLOs, and system reliability
  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, or integrating AI/LLM-powered tooling and automations
  • Passion for customer privacy
  • Built tools or services that automate platform operations, reduce toil, or improve cost efficiency.
  • Experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems under real-world load.
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience building solutions that reduces friction in software delivery.
  • Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.
  • AWS certifications or broad experience across multiple AWS services is a plus.

Skills

Required:AWSProgrammingLinuxInfrastructure as CodeSRE fundamentalsKubernetes
Nice to have:GitOpsAI/LLM tooling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation may be eligible
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • discretionary employee stock units (RSUs) and stock purchase opportunities
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Apple

Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.

Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.

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