Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
122 days ago
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Above market

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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

Apple Inc currently has 3497 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The ASE Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the Apple Services Engineering team to ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of services like the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV. You will own the full service lifecycle, from initial architecture and system design consulting to deployment and continuous operational improvement. Daily responsibilities include monitoring service health, leading production incident responses, and driving a culture of operational excellence by replacing manual toil with automation. You will utilize programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, along with shell scripting, to manage large-scale distributed systems. The role requires expertise in observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration like Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to solve complex reliability problems within a high-traffic production environment.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the full service lifecycle from initial architecture through deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Provide system design consulting and capacity planning to prepare services for production.
  • Monitor and maintain service health across availability, latency, and performance dimensions.
  • Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual operational overhead and ensure scalability.
  • Lead production incident response and participate in on-call rotations.
  • Conduct blameless postmortems to identify and resolve systemic issues.
  • Embed reliability practices throughout the software development lifecycle with engineering and security teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical projects and providing engineering leadership.
  • Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, and shell scripting.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (preferred).
  • Experience with observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning at scale (preferred).
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Proven track record of driving automation to reduce operational toil in high-traffic production environments (preferred).

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