Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
76 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $185k
This role $214k
$128k most similar roles pay here $294k

This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $157,175–$213,692 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

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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 1984 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1590 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As an ASE Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will join the Apple Services Engineering team to ensure that core services like the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV remain available, performant, and scalable. You will own the full service lifecycle, from initial architecture through deployment and continuous improvement, while partnering with cross-functional teams on system design consulting, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews. Your daily work involves monitoring service health across availability and latency dimensions, replacing manual toil with automation, and leading incident responses. To succeed, you must possess strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, along with shell scripting expertise. You will also utilize observability tooling, manage container orchestration via Kubernetes, and navigate CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-traffic production environments for a diverse range of global media services.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the full service lifecycle from initial architecture and design through deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Provide system design consulting, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews for cross-functional teams.
  • Monitor and maintain service health across availability, latency, and performance dimensions.
  • Develop automation and tooling to replace manual toil and ensure sustainable scalability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead the response to production incidents.
  • Conduct blameless postmortems to improve system reliability after incidents.
  • Embed reliability practices throughout the software development lifecycle in collaboration 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, or shell scripting.
  • Experience with observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning at scale.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven track record of driving automation to reduce operational toil in high-traffic production environments.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred.

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