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Lead SRE

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About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Apple Data Platform (ADP) Compute SRE team. Provides technical leadership, ensures high-quality service architecture, tooling, and operational excellence for core infrastructure, including legacy bare-metal and modern cloud-based stack, with emphasis on observability, automation, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration across ASE and Data Platform Services.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Principal/Lead SRE for the ADP SRE team, guiding Individual Contributors and collaborating with senior engineers to ensure service architecture, tooling, design, and implementations reach the highest quality standards, all grounded in empirical data and unique problem-solving expertise
  • Identify opportunities to improve technical operations and up skill partner teams by demonstrating best practices, while fostering deep collaboration with software developers across the Data Platform Services to deliver seamless customer experiences
  • Provide technical direction for Kubernetes infrastructure, encompassing tooling development (including infrastructure-as-code) and core services, within a cross-functional environment dedicated to applying a consistent incident management process and high availability architecture supported by exhaustive observability metrics and automated deployments
  • Utilize Python, Java, or Golang programming skills, enhanced by Generative AI tooling, to rapidly build mission-critical automation and tools, while critically evaluating solutions to balance long-term optimization with immediate business priorities
  • Exhibit strong collaboration and presentation abilities to clearly communicate strategic ideas and advocate for the SRE team's deliverables and needs with ASE leadership, ensuring that good ideas are heard and results are rewarded
  • Manage production on-call rotations and lead the end-to-end management of all incidents, applying a holistic approach that balances technical excellence with organizational goals
  • 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, specifically managing infrastructure and services at scale
  • 5+ years of experience in management or technical leadership roles
  • 5+ years of proficiency in running applications and managing Kubernetes clusters on Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or GCP
  • Proven history of end-to-end project management and delivery
  • Demonstrable programming skills for developing software/tools and leading code reviews
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers
  • 15+ years of experience in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale
  • Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, and/or Druid
  • Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
  • Ability to define the technical roadmap for infrastructure and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, specifically managing infrastructure and services at scale
  • 5+ years of experience in management or technical leadership roles
  • 5+ years of proficiency in running applications and managing Kubernetes clusters on Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or GCP
  • Proven history of end-to-end project management and delivery
  • Demonstrable programming skills for developing software/tools and leading code reviews
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers
  • 15+ years of experience in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale
  • Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, and/or Druid
  • Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
  • Ability to define the technical roadmap for infrastructure and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices

Skills

Required:SRE leadershipKubernetesProgrammingLinux/Networking/Containers
Nice to have:Infrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally.
  • Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
  • Accessibility-focused culture, benefits and digital tools supporting diverse perspectives and belonging.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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