Apple

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform Infra SRE

Apple$140K — $180K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 12+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering managing infrastructure and services at scale.
  • 5+ years in management or technical leadership roles.
  • Proven end-to-end project management and delivery history.
  • Demonstrable programming skills and experience with code reviews.
  • Experience with Hadoop and Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers.

Responsibilities

  • Apply SRE principles to mentor and partner with engineers and teams.
  • Manage bare-metal and cloud-based infrastructure for analytics.
  • Leverage and extend infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Analyze and optimize performance for petabyte-scale infrastructure.
  • Plan and execute long-term fleet management and logistics.
  • Ensure operational excellence across distributed data platforms.
  • Take production on-call responsibilities.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Opportunity to influence and mentor teams.
  • Work on cutting-edge technology and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Contribution to services impacting millions of users.
  • Focus on personal growth through diverse experiences.
Full Job Description
As a principal contributor in our Apple Data Platform SRE organization you will apply SRE principles as you mentor and partner with our engineers and partner teams, ensuring petabyte-scale analytics infrastructure runs reliably and efficiently. This role focuses on managing bare-metal and cloud based infrastructure, levering and extending our infrastructure-as-code based tooling, analyzing and optimizing performance, helping to plan and execute long term fleet management logistics, capacity planning, and ultimately maintaining operational excellence across distributed data platforms that power analytics across Apple. This role includes production on-call responsibilities. Apple Service Engineering (ASE) teams build and scale the platforms and infrastructure behind many of Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Senior Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership on our team to help ensure our customers have the highest quality Apple Services experience. The Apple Data Platform (ADP) Compute SRE team is responsible for the core infrastructure, including our legacy bare-metal platforms and modern cloud based infrastructure stack. We partner with both peer SRE teams and several of our world-class software and product engineering teams to support infrastructure reliability, multi-year parallel migrations for Apple properties, as well as the automation, tooling, incident, and process management necessary to ensure smooth 24x7 operations for ADP customers. BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, managing infrastructure and services at scale 5+ years of experience in management or technical leadership roles History of end-to-end project management and delivery Demonstrable programming skills to both develop software/tools and lead code reviews Experience managing Hadoop and Kubernetes infrastructure and related services, or equivalent experience Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers 15+ YoE in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning Ability to define the technical roadmap for infrastructure and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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