Senior Reliability Engineer, Data

Apple Inc

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TL;DR · Senior Reliability Engineer, Data

JOB TITLE: Senior Reliability Engineer - Data, Apple Ads As a Senior Reliability Engineer - Data, Apple Ads, you will join the team to design, build, and manage cloud-based systems and infrastructure for storing, processing, transforming, and analyzing large datasets. You will ensure data infrastructure is accessible, reliable, and secure within cloud environments like AWS. Your daily responsibilities include building large-scale distributed data systems using EMR, EKS, MSK, and Iceberg, while developing internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve observability and cost-efficiency. You will collaborate with machine learning and data platform teams to troubleshoot complex issues and drive production excellence. Required skills include expertise in Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code using Helm. You will also leverage ML and GenAI capabilities to improve operational efficiency for petabyte-scale batch and streaming pipelines.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and manage large-scale distributed data systems on AWS using services like EMR, EKS, and MSK.
  • Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and observability.
  • Lead initiatives to eliminate toil through automation and scalable deployment patterns.
  • Manage cloud-native data platforms to ensure high availability and low latency for petabyte-scale batch and streaming pipelines.
  • Perform capacity planning, cost optimization, and incident response for production-critical systems.
  • Design and manage Infrastructure as Code using Helm and CRDs to ensure repeatable and secure deployments.
  • Contribute to strategic decisions regarding multi-cloud ecosystem adoption and operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering with a focus on building, scaling, and operating cloud-based distributed data systems.
  • Proven expertise running cloud infrastructure built on managed services offered by cloud providers like AWS.
  • Strong technical grasp and experience working on Open Source technologies for large-scale data processing, such as Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Iceberg.
  • Strong expertise and experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
  • Experience leveraging ML and GenAI capabilities to improve infrastructure and operational efficiency.
  • Track record owning reliability and performance of cloud-native data platforms, including capacity planning, cost optimization, and incident response.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale batch and streaming pipelines.
  • Strong programming skills in object-oriented, functional, or procedural languages, preferably Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Python (preferred).

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