Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform / Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Apple Inc

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform / Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

The Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform / Multi-Cloud Infrastructure joins the Apple Services Engineering team to support a massive multi-cloud platform for internal data and AI products. You will operate, monitor, and triage production environments, providing hands-on support for services like Spark, Flink, Airflow, Ray, and LLM-based agent platforms. Key responsibilities include debugging production incidents involving IAM permissions, storage quotas, and cluster disruptions while maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows. You will use Python, Golang, AWS services including EKS, RDS, S3, and VPC networking, as well as Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. This role solves complex reliability problems across AWS, GCP, and on-premise Kubernetes, ensuring high availability for big data pipelines and machine learning infrastructure.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production environments for data processing and ML/AI services.
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to provide support for supported services.
  • Manage multi-cloud infrastructure health, specifically focusing on AWS services and EKS clusters.
  • Provide Slack-based support to internal customers to screen, triage, and resolve service issues.
  • Debug production incidents involving IAM permissions, storage quotas, and cluster-wide disruptions.
  • Design monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for new services using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
  • Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows using Crossplane, Terraform, and Flux.
  • Build automation and self-healing tooling to reduce manual toil and increase operational capacity.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
  • 1-4 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure-focused role.
  • Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of Golang (preferred).
  • Strong hands-on AWS experience including IAM, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC networking, autoscaling, and EBS.
  • Kubernetes administration experience including RBAC, node/pod scheduling, autoscalers, and troubleshooting cluster-wide disruptions.
  • Solid grounding in SRE principles with prior on-call or production-support experience.
  • Strong communication skills and composure under pressure during incidents.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Crossplane/Terraform), GitOps (Flux), or multi-cloud (GCP) (preferred).

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