Apple

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Object Storage

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in distributed storage systems or large-scale stateful systems
  • Proficient in programming languages like Go, Java, Python, or Rust
  • Solid understanding of block, object, and file storage in Linux environments
  • Knowledge of Linux internals and distributed systems
  • Experience with disaster recovery, capacity planning, and data migration

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate Apple’s next generation distributed storage systems
  • Take ownership of projects and deliverables to meet goals
  • Craft solutions and gain buy-in from stakeholders
  • Provide technical feedback and drive standards within the team
  • Handle alerts and critical issues for system availability
  • Collaborate across time zones with team members in the US and UK

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the direction of Apple's cloud platform
  • Engagement with critical services impacting hundreds of millions of users
  • Training on a mix of open source and proprietary technologies
  • Possibility of travel to Apple locations in the US or EU
  • Chance to improve engineering solutions through innovative ideas
Full Job Description
Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple's most critical services. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges. As a Storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to tackle these problems using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals. Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management! **Description** We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Object Storage SRE team at Apple. The role involves tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the platform, shaping its use by many critical Apple Cloud services for years to come. You are solution-oriented and have a passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features. The role involves understanding the team's priorities; taking ownership of projects or deliverables; crafting solutions and building buy-in for those designs; and successful delivery of those designs in order to meet the project goal. The role involves giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist them in the delivery of their designs, features and projects, as well as driving technical standards across the two-site team in collaboration with other senior members of the team. The team has an on-call rota including the week-ends and the successful candidate should expect to handle alerts and other critical issues in order to maintain a high level of availability and functionality for our provided services. The team is divided into two shards in UK and US and cross-timezone meetings are a core feature of how our team collaborates, reaches agreements, and executes to deliver projects. At Apple Cloud, we run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded. The candidate may be expected to travel to different Apple locations in the US or EU. **Minimum Qualifications** 4+ years experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment, or working with other large-scale, stateful systems such as distributed databases. The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust. Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS). Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems. Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. **Preferred Qualifications** Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration. Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management. failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc. Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker). Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks. Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes. Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)

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