Evaluation Reliability SRE

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
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$216,200–$324,800 / yr
Posted
159 days ago
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TL;DR · Evaluation Reliability SRE

The Evaluation Reliability SRE joins the Core SRE team within the Siri organization to maintain the production backbone of machine learning evaluation infrastructure. This senior hands-on role focuses on ensuring the reliability of the quality signal used for model and product decisions. Key responsibilities include owning reliability outcomes for orchestration, capacity, and service health, authoring complex runbooks, and instrumenting infrastructure components to improve observability. The successful candidate will manage resource management, session orchestration, and on-call response while balancing incident response with proactive automation to eliminate recurring failures. Required skills include five years of site reliability or platform engineering experience, hands-on orchestration with Kubernetes, and proficiency with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot. The role addresses distributed systems reliability and device management infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Own reliability outcomes across the evaluation infrastructure stack, including orchestration, capacity, and service health.
  • Author high-quality runbooks for complex failure categories and set the standard for the engineering team.
  • Diagnose upstream issues by developing deep expertise in device orchestration, provisioning, and quota management.
  • Instrument infrastructure components to improve observability and ensure failures are easily detectable.
  • Balance active incident response with proactive reliability work to automate and eliminate recurring failures.
  • Define SLOs and burn-rate alerting to turn reliability targets into measurable outcomes.
  • Lead end-to-end incident investigations and participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
  • Influence the technical roadmap and mentor junior SREs on infrastructure reliability practices.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of site reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience with direct on-call ownership in production systems.
  • Hands-on orchestration experience with Kubernetes or equivalent for cluster health, resource management, scheduling, and failure diagnosis at scale.
  • Experience owning or closely operating a device or VM provisioning pipeline (preferred).
  • Track record of improving system reliability against measurable outcomes like uptime, MTTR, and incident frequency (preferred).
  • Incident command discipline to lead multi-team incidents from declaration to close-out (preferred).
  • Depth in distributed systems reliability, device management infrastructure, or evaluation/ML platform operations (preferred).
  • Demonstrated cross-team technical influence and experience shaping reliability practices beyond the immediate team (preferred).
  • Fluency with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot.

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