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

• Owning the reliability, performance, and scale of distributed storage and data platform systems powering Apple’s services.
• Debugging replication and consensus failures in storage engines and distributed consensus systems.
• Tuning systems operating at petabyte scale.
• Writing production code that operates the data platform.
• Partnering with development teams on system-wide architecture rather than individual components.