Apple

Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform / Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Apple$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 1-4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure
  • Proficient in Python; knowledge of Golang beneficial
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, EKS, RDS, S3
  • Experience in Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
  • Excellent communication skills, especially under pressure
  • Solid grounding in SRE principles with on-call support experience

Responsibilities

  • Support and operate the entire Apple Data Platform portfolio
  • Drive reliability roadmap for assigned services
  • Collaborate with internal teams on incident response
  • Expertly troubleshoot IAM policy and Kubernetes scheduling issues
  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code tools for service reliability
  • Assist in GitOps workflow management and reconciliation
  • Continuously learn and adapt technologies to improve reliability

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology
  • Career growth potential in a diverse technical environment
  • Autonomy in managing service reliability
  • Collaborative team culture and support
  • Access to continuous learning and professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
Within ASE, the Apple Data Platform SRE team keeps a massive, multi-cloud platform running for thousands of internal engineers building the next generation of data and AI products at Apple. We sit at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and customer success - running incident response, providing hands-on support to internal teams, and partnering with developers to make cutting-edge services like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Ray, Notebooks, and LLM-based agent platforms reliable at scale across AWS, GCP, and on-premise Kubernetes.

Description

This is a rare opportunity to build deep expertise across one of the most technically diverse platforms at Apple - while specialising in the cloud infrastructure that underpins all of it. As an SRE on Apple Data Platform, you'll operate and support the team's full portfolio, from big data pipelines to ML/AI platform services, and grow into the team's go-to expert for multi-cloud infrastructure - including AWS core services (IAM, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC networking, autoscaling, EBS), Kubernetes administration at scale, and the Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps tooling that keeps it all reconciled and reliable. You'll be the person other engineers turn to when an IAM policy misfires, a cluster hits a scheduling wall, or a GitOps reconciliation drifts out of sync - and the driving force behind making those failure modes rarer over time.

We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who thrives on ownership - someone who wants a set of services to call their own, the autonomy to drive their reliability roadmap, and the collaborative instinct to keep that work aligned with the team's broader direction. If you love going deep on cloud and Kubernetes internals, enjoy being the trusted expert customers turn to, and want a front-row seat to Apple Data Platform's multi-cloud evolution, this role offers real room to grow your scope and impact over time.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.

1-4 years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure-focused role.

Proficient in Python; working knowledge of Golang a plus.

Strong hands-on AWS experience: IAM (roles, policies, permission boundaries, KMS), EKS, RDS, S3, VPC networking/endpoints, autoscaling groups, EBS.

Kubernetes administration experience - RBAC, node/pod scheduling, autoscalers, PriorityClasses/PDBs, and troubleshooting cluster-wide disruptions.

Strong communication skills and composure under pressure during incidents.

Solid grounding in SRE principles, with prior on-call or production-support experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Crossplane and/or Terraform), including debugging state drift and composition/controller issues.

Experience with GitOps workflows (Flux or similar) - HelmRepository/reconciliation troubleshooting and Helm chart deployment.

Multi-cloud exposure (GCP) - parity and migration scenarios are emerging areas of focus.

Experience with Splunk for log pipeline debugging (e.g., fluent-bit).

Familiarity with Spark/Flink running on Kubernetes (executor scheduling, node affinity).

Comfort with GitHub PR review workflows in an infrastructure-as-code / GitOps context.

A track record of automating manual operations through scripting or tooling.

Intellectual curiosity and a drive to keep learning - for yourself, your team, and the org.

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
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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