Apple

Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform

Apple$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years in software development or production operations in a large-scale environment
  • Proficient in Go, Python, or Java with software delivery platforms
  • Experience with production applications, performance testing, HA concepts, and distributed systems management
  • Familiarity with Linux OS, containers, networking protocols
  • Strong ownership and communication skills
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage infrastructure and applications across cloud and bare-metal environments
  • Ensure optimal performance for data processing, governance, and storage
  • Collaborate with platform teams to support data analytics for Apple's global products
  • Design and implement performance testing and disaster recovery solutions
  • Architect and maintain large-scale distributed systems, particularly using Kubernetes
  • Automate manual operations to enhance efficiency
  • Oversee capacity planning and resource management for data-heavy applications

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology at a global scale
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Focus on professional growth and continuous learning
  • Possibility to influence the infrastructure for major Apple products
  • Engagement in solving complex engineering challenges
Full Job Description
Description

Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing, governance, and storage for many of Apple's global products and organizations. Our platform teams work with exabytes of data, terabytes of memory, and hundreds of thousands of jobs running millions of executors to support predicable and performant data analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music, TV, Maps, News, and other world class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges.

Minimum Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent

5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment

Proficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platforms

Experience operating production applications at scale, including well designed performance testing, HA and disaster recovery concepts, capacity planning, and managing distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes

Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers and virtualization, standard networking protocols, and components

Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration

Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills using the scientific method

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, Trino, and/or Druid.

Proficiency in managing applications and infra on AWS, GCP and Ali Cloud.

The successful candidate is frustrated with toil and has an acute drive to both automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.

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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