Apple

Site Reliability Engineer - ML, Apple Ads

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in backend production systems or SRE roles for large-scale cloud infrastructure
  • Expertise with AWS-managed services
  • Familiarity with machine learning lifecycle tools like NVIDIA Triton and Apache Airflow
  • Programming skills in Python, Java, Rust, Go, or similar languages
  • Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep internal knowledge
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform
  • Strong foundation in SRE concepts such as monitoring and incident response

Responsibilities

  • Own the performance and scalability of the ML infrastructure
  • Build and implement automation to eliminate manual processes
  • Improve platform resilience to support ML workloads
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams on solution design
  • Monitor and maintain system health, ensuring reliability and efficiency
  • Develop tooling to aid in ML training and serving workloads
  • Enable faster, more confident development through robust platform solutions

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge machine learning technologies
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams to enhance learning and growth
  • Access to training resources and tools for skill development
  • Potential career advancement opportunities within a leading tech company
Full Job Description
The Site Reliability Engineering team within Apple Ads ensures the reliability, performance, and availability of ML Platform and Services at scale. The team partners closely with Ads engineering, data science and ML platform teams to enable product delivery through design, configuration, and automation of machine learning infrastructure powering Apple Ads applications.

We are looking for a ML Platform Infrastructure Engineer to help build and evolve the next generation of Apple Ads machine learning platform - enabling fast, reliable, and scalable operations across AWS-based environments supporting transactional and analytical workloads.

Description

As a site reliability engineer in Apple Ads focused on machine learning, you will own the health, performance, and scalability of large scale infrastructure powering ML training, inference, serving workloads and associated platform tooling. Your focus will be on building automation that eliminates manual processes, improves platform resilience, and enables teams to move faster with confidence.

This is not a DevOps-only or CI/CD-focused role. We are looking for engineers who build platform solutions, not just configure pipelines.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of experience in internet-facing backend production systems, SRE or ML Operations focused roles on large scale distributed cloud infrastructure

Proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure

Familiarity with ML lifecycle and associated technologies such as NVIDIA Triton, AnyScale Ray, Apache Airflow etc.

Strong programming skills in at least one of: Python, Java, Rust, Go or similar languages

Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep knowledge of its internals.

Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.

Strong foundation in SRE concepts: Monitoring, alerting, observability, Incident response and root cause analysis, Error budgets, SLAs/SLOs, and system reliability

Preferred Qualifications

Built tools or services that automate platform operations, reduce toil, or improve cost efficiency.

Experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production environments.

Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems under real-world load.

Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.

AWS certifications or broad experience across multiple AWS services is a plus.

Understanding of modern GPU hardware architectures (such as NVIDIA H100, B200, or GB200, AWS Inferentia ), associated drivers

Understanding of high-performance fabrics and network architecture, power, and thermal limits

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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