Database Systems SRE, ASE Coordination SRE

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Cupertino, CA
Salary: $150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted: 4 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Database Systems SRE, ASE Coordination SRE

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The Database Systems SRE, ASE Coordination SRE joins the Coordination SRE team within the Services Engineering organization. This role involves developing and contributing to software that manages Apache Zookeeper and ETCD, which are critical distributed coordination and state management systems for internet services. You will build applications and tooling for maintenance automation, monitoring, alerting, and deployment architecture while contributing upstream patches for database stability and performance. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Java, Go, or Python, along with expertise in database concepts, performance engineering, and operating systems. You will work on large cross-organizational projects involving datacenter architecture, wide-area networking, and multi-datacenter system design. The work focuses on ensuring reliable, scalable, and fast infrastructure for services like iCloud across global data-centers.

Skills

Apache Zookeeper ETCD Distributed Systems SRE Java Go Python Kubernetes Terraform EC2 EBS Monitoring Alerting Performance Engineering Datacenter Architecture Networking Storage Engines

What you'll do

Develop and maintain software to manage Apache Zookeeper and ETCD distributed coordination systems.
Build applications and tooling for reliable, scalable, and fast deployment infrastructure.
Automate maintenance tasks and develop monitoring, alerting tools, and dashboards.
Contribute upstream patches to databases to improve stability, performance, and scaling.
Design and manage multi-datacenter deployment architectures for large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Define performance metrics, optimization opportunities, and quality guardrails for internal platform customers.
Manage service migrations across bare metal, virtualized, and Kubernetes platforms.

What we're looking for

BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Go (golang), or Python.
Understanding of core SRE concepts including monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
Understanding of database concepts such as consistency models, isolation levels, and crash and recovery semantics.
Knowledge of performance engineering design concepts and profile-guided optimization.
Understanding of operating systems concepts including process scheduling, disk and network I/O, and performance.
Knowledge of datacenter architecture, multi-datacenter systems, failure domains, and wide-area networking.
Experience developing critical internet services, platform infrastructure, or distributed databases (preferred).

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