Data Platform Infra Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements

• Experience in managing and scaling large-scale distributed systems in a private or hybrid cloud environment.
• Comfortable designing, writing, and releasing production code in languages such as Go or Python.
• Able to debug and reason about how distributed systems fail and perform at scale.
• Willingness to take part in on-call rotations and incident response to keep critical systems healthy.

Nice to Haves

• Contributions to distributed-systems internals, open-source data infrastructure, or storage/database engines.
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs, building observability, and using error budgets to drive reliability decisions.
• A good grasp of Unix internals and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with data migration, disaster recovery, or capacity planning at scale.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the reliability, performance, and scale of the distributed storage and data platform systems.
• Debug replication and consensus failures, tune systems at petabyte scale, and write production code.
• Partner with development teams on system-wide architecture.

Perks and Benefits

• Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organisation focusing on innovation and collaboration.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems powering Apple's services.
• Environment promoting diverse minds and unique perspectives.
• Ownership culture with accountability for the code you write.