Site Reliability Engineer - Apple Services Engineering

Requirements

• Depth of understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard software, services, and networking protocols.
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
• The ability to design, author, and deploy code in languages like Python and Go.
• Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment.

Nice to Haves

• Extensive hands-on experience automating configuration of a diverse Linux fleet with services like Puppet; including management of core OS services, system partitioning, networking, package management, and system observability.
• Extensive experience managing and scaling resilient distributed systems on bare metal / private clouds.
• Capability and drive to troubleshoot and problem-solve complex system issues for root cause discovery.
• Strong SRE mindset, experience with managed deployment methodologies, error budgets, scale testing, and disaster recovery.
• RHEL9 certification a plus.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes a plus.

What You'll Be Doing

• Operating at scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers and servicing hundreds of millions of users.
• Solving problems using data, teamwork, and expertise.
• Owning the full infrastructure stack and having broad and deep responsibility for its health.
• Using a mix of open source, vendor-licensed, and internally developed tools to manage the service.
• Thinking critically and striving to balance the best solution with resolving each unique engineering challenge.

Perks and Benefits

• Joining a team that builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services.
• Being part of a team that inspires innovation and leaves the world better than we found it.
• Passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers continuing the focus on providing the highest quality Apple Services experience.
• Opportunities to improve tools, have good ideas heard, and be rewarded for results.