Observability SRE Manager

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $225,600–$338,400 / yr
Posted: 45 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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TL;DR · Observability SRE Manager

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The Observability SRE Manager, Apple Services Engineering, is a senior leadership role focused on the reliability and performance of the core observability platform. You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers to manage metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure that serves as the central nervous system for cloud services. Responsibilities include defining strategic roadmaps, establishing SRE practices like SLOs and error budgets, driving automation to reduce toil, and integrating AI/ML tools for anomaly detection and root-cause analysis. The role requires expertise in multi-tenant distributed systems, Kubernetes, and full-stack troubleshooting across network, OS, and application layers. Key technologies include Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Java, Scala, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. You will manage the lifecycle of monitoring systems to ensure high availability for critical services while mentoring a high-performing team.

Skills

SRE Observability Metrics Logging Tracing Alerting SLOs Error Budgets Kubernetes Python Go Java Scala Bash Prometheus Thanos Splunk OpenTelemetry AWS GCP Azure Terraform Ansible Helm Puppet Spinnaker AIOps

What you'll do

Own the reliability, availability, and performance of the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure.
Define and execute a strategic roadmap for observability tools in partnership with engineering and product stakeholders.
Establish SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and disaster recovery protocols.
Drive automation to eliminate manual processes through tooling, self-service platforms, and APIs.
Execute an AI strategy to integrate machine learning into root-cause analysis and toil reduction.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers while managing performance and career development.
Partner with cross-functional teams to influence system design for scalability and operational readiness.
Communicate technical strategies, trade-offs, and progress reports to executive leadership.

What we're looking for

Minimum of 5 years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or observability teams.
Experience hiring, growing, and mentoring a team of engineers.
Deep understanding of observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs, and error budgets.
Strong systems background with ability to troubleshoot across network, OS, container runtime, and application layers.
Experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems in production, including Kubernetes environments.
Proficiency in shell/bash scripting and at least one high-level language like Python, Go, Java, or Scala.
Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML tooling or LLM-based solutions to improve SRE or infrastructure operations.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.