Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform SRE / Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$181,100–$318,400 / yr
Posted
1 day ago

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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 · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform SRE / Apple Services Engineering

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Apple Data Platform SRE within Apple Services Engineering, you will serve as a technical lead, driving reliability standards and engineering excellence across multiple teams responsible for Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lakes, and Airflow ecosystems. Your daily responsibilities include defining SLO frameworks, conducting architectural reviews, developing shared observability tools, and mentoring engineers to ensure consistent application of SRE principles. You will also engage in production on-call duties and lead incident management for high-severity issues. The role requires expertise in Python and Golang, along with a deep understanding of large-scale data infrastructure technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Apache Airflow. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex, mission-critical systems at Apple’s massive scale, influencing technical direction and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the organization.

What you'll do

  • Serve as SRE Technical Lead across ADP, ensuring reliability standards are consistently applied.
  • Define and drive adoption of SLO frameworks and incident management practices for ADP services.
  • Provide architectural review and reliability guidance for new services and major platform changes.
  • Develop shared observability and automation tooling that benefits multiple ADP teams simultaneously.
  • Mentor SRE engineers across teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering at scale
  • 5+ years of technical leadership across multiple teams without direct authority
  • Expertise in Hadoop, HBase, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, S3-compatible storage, and Airflow
  • Experience defining and driving SLO frameworks and reliability practices
  • Programming skills in Python and Golang for developing shared tooling
  • Strong communication skills to present technical strategy to various audiences
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux, networking, and distributed systems

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