Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

Apple Inc

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Seattle, WA
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$175,000–$308,500 / yr
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1 day ago
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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

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The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Compute joins the Apple Service Engineering Compute team to build and enhance compute infrastructure for global services. You will design and implement solutions for VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning within highly distributed environments. Daily responsibilities include operating, monitoring, and triaging production compute environments, automating deployment processes, and developing AI-assisted automation tools to accelerate operational workflows and triage. You will utilize Go, Python, OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies, and Kubernetes to manage large-scale distributed systems. The role focuses on solving infrastructure challenges for cloud platforms, specifically managing VM lifecycles and bare metal infrastructure to ensure high availability and scalability for diverse service offerings. You will also collaborate with engineering and QA teams to maintain robust, automated infrastructure as a managed service.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 30 postings across 7 companies.

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Skills

Go Python Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Chef OpenStack KVM Unix Infrastructure as Code Distributed Systems VM Orchestration Bare Metal Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure

What you'll do

  • Design and implement solutions for VM orchestration and bare metal provisioning in distributed environments.
  • Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of production and non-production compute environments.
  • Automate the deployment and orchestration of compute infrastructure and routine operational processes.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues to minimize downtime.
  • Develop AI-assisted tools to accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Prepare alert handling procedures and technical runbooks for production systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
  • Advanced Degree (preferred).
  • 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering Infrastructure focused role.
  • Strong experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with OpenStack, KVM/hypervisor technologies, and Kubernetes.
  • Highly proficient in Go or Python.
  • Experienced with highly distributed unix systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Chef, Ansible, or Terraform (preferred).

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