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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple· Apple Services Engineering / iCloud
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Hybrid (Culver City / San Diego / Seattle)$142.3k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior SRE with experience in building and supporting highly available customer-facing services for Apple Services Engineering (ASE) focusing on reliability, scalability, and automation across products like iCloud.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with our product teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable infrastructure solutions.
  • Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our 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 a 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.
  • Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, or Go.
  • Automation experience
  • Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
  • Familiarity with micro-services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Awareness of key security principles including encryption, keys (types and exchange protocols).
  • Understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
  • Strong sense of ownership, with a desire to communicate and collaborate with other engineers and teams.
  • Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems, while working with partners and their team to iteratively find solutions.

Skills

Required:LinuxNetworkingProgramming in Java, Python, or GoAutomationDocker / KubernetesSRE Principles

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 and relocation may be available
  • stock programs including Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and discretionary restricted stock unit awards
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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