Senior Site Reliability Engineer - ASE / iCloud
Apple· Software and Services
ShanghaiFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Apple Services Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role focusing on building and supporting highly available, customer-facing services within ASE, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation, and collaboration with product teams to support iCloud and related services.
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 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 oncall 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
- 5+ years in an Infrastructure Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps focused role.
- BS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 5+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of Linux operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management.
- Fluency in at least one of Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in cloud environments (public, private, or hybrid).
- Familiarity with micro-services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Awareness of key security principles including encryption, keys and exchange protocols.
- Understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
- Strong ownership, communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems and iteratively solve them with partners.
Skills
Required:Infrastructure as code / automationDistributed systemsLinuxNetworkingJava/Python/GoKubernetesMonitoring / ObservabilityOn-call / Incident responseCommunication / Collaboration
Nice to have:Security
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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