Apple

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Storage SRE / Apple Services Engineering

Apple$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent required
  • 12+ years in Site Reliability Engineering managing large-scale infrastructure
  • 5+ years in technical leadership roles across teams without direct authority
  • Extensive knowledge of data platform technologies: Hadoop, HBase, Spark, and Airflow
  • Experience with SLO/error budget frameworks and reliability practices
  • Proficient in programming for shared tooling and engineering standards
  • Strong communication skills for presenting technical strategies

Responsibilities

  • Drive SRE standards and engineering excellence across Apple Data Platform
  • Mentor and partner with engineers and partner teams
  • Establish architectural review processes for platform-wide consistency
  • Define SLOs and develop error budget frameworks
  • Create shared tooling and automation for increased reliability
  • Oversee production on-call responsibilities while maintaining high system uptime
  • Align cross-functional teams on best practices and reliability strategies

Benefits

  • Participate in the development of industry-leading technology
  • Collaboration with talented cross-functional teams at Apple
  • Opportunity to drive impactful changes and innovations
  • Engage in a culture that values excellence and reliability
  • Work in a dynamic environment with access to numerous career development resources
Full Job Description
As a principal contributor and technical lead in our Apple Data Platform (ADP) SRE organization, you will apply SRE principles as you mentor and partner with our engineers and partner teams, ensuring large-scale analytics infrastructure runs reliably and efficiently. This role focuses on driving reliability standards, architectural consistency, and engineering excellence across peer SRE teams and partner engineering organizations - spanning Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lakes, and Airflow ecosystems - through technical leadership, cross-functional alignment, and the development of platform-wide tooling, observability, and operational practices that raise the reliability bar for all of ADP. This role includes production on-call responsibilities.

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) teams build and scale the platforms and infrastructure behind many of Apple's services - including 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 Technical Lead to drive SRE standards and engineering excellence across the entire Apple Data Platform organization. The Apple Data Platform (ADP) SRE Technical Lead partners with multiple SRE and engineering teams across the data platform - including teams responsible for Hadoop and HBase infrastructure, Spark, S3-compatible storage, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines. Rather than owning a single vertical, this role sets the technical direction for how reliability is practiced across ADP: defining SLOs, establishing architectural review processes, developing shared tooling and automation, and ensuring that SRE principles are applied consistently as the platform scales. You will be a force multiplier - making every team around you more effective.

Minimum Qualifications

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 technical leadership roles, with demonstrated ability to lead horizontally across teams without direct authority

Broad expertise across the data platform stack: Hadoop (HDFS, YARN), HBase, Apache Spark, Data Lake architectures, S3-compatible storage solutions, and Apache Airflow

History of defining and driving SLO/error budget frameworks and reliability practices across multiple teams or services

Demonstrable programming skills to develop shared tooling, lead code reviews, and set engineering standards

Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to present technical strategy to both engineers and leadership

Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

15+ years of experience in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale

Experience with Ceph object storage operations

Kubernetes cluster operations experience, particularly running stateful data workloads

Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning across distributed data systems

Experience driving multi-year platform migrations or large-scale architectural transitions

Ability to define the technical roadmap for a data platform organization and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices

Background in data security, access control, or compliance-sensitive data environments

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