Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted
95 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 · Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)

JOB TITLE: Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) The Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) joins the Apple Services Engineering team to support the infrastructure powering the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV. This role involves configuring, tuning, and fixing multi-tiered systems to ensure optimal application performance, stability, and availability. You will manage jobs and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms, specifically supporting Java-based applications and Spark or Flink jobs. Key responsibilities include building automation for self-healing systems, developing monitoring tools for low-latency applications, and troubleshooting core network and system issues. You will utilize AWS, Kubernetes, Hadoop, and *nix environments to manage exabytes of data. The work focuses on providing predictable and performant data analytics to enable features across global products while maintaining high standards for security and scalability.

What you'll do

  • Support Java-based applications and Spark/Flink jobs on Baremetal, AWS, and Kubernetes platforms.
  • Assess and select the appropriate services and topologies to meet performance, security, and scalability requirements.
  • Build automation to enable self-healing systems across production and development environments.
  • Develop tools to monitor high-performance applications and generate alerts for low-latency issues.
  • Troubleshoot application-specific, core network, system, and performance issues.
  • Monitor production, staging, test, and development environments for a wide variety of applications.
  • Deliver innovative solutions for fast-paced projects supporting Apple's global business needs.

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or DevOps role.
  • BS degree in computer science with 5+ years experience, MS degree with 3+ years experience, or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of experience running services in a large-scale *nix environment.
  • Understanding of SRE principles and goals along with prior on-call experience.
  • Extensive experience managing applications on AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Deep understanding and experience in one or more of the following: Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, or AWS.
  • Experience supporting Java applications (preferred).
  • Experience with Big Data Technologies (preferred).

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