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Site Reliability Engineer

Apple
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Apple Cloud storage SRE team focusing on building and operating next-generation distributed storage systems at scale across multiple data centers. Role involves owning projects, designing and delivering solutions, contributing to technical standards, and participating in an on-call rotation to maintain high availability. Global, cross-timezone collaboration with a mix of open source, vendor, and internal tools.

Responsibilities

  • Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Design, author, understand, and release code in Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.
  • Understand block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS).
  • Understand Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
  • Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems - implications of physical and virtual deployment models to change management, failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc.
  • Acute drive to automate manual operations and improve them through repeated iteration.
  • Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker).
  • Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB).

Qualifications

  • Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
  • Ability to design, author, understand, and release code in Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust.
  • Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS).
  • Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
  • Awareness of deployment best practices for storage systems.

Skills

Required:GoPythonLinux storage concepts (LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)Linux internalsProvisioning, data migration, backup & recoveryDisaster recovery and capacity planningConfiguration management/automationMonitoring and deployment of servicesKubernetesDatabases (Cassandra, Postgres, RocksDB)
Nice to have:JavaRust
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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