Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Services, Infrastructure Services

Apple Inc

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Austin, TX
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116 days 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 · Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Services, Infrastructure Services

As a Site Reliability Engineer (Edge Services) within the Infrastructure Services team, you will treat operations as a software problem by building self-healing systems and reducing toil through aggressive automation. You will design and implement a next-generation observability and alerting strategy that prioritizes high-cardinality data to ensure services are resilient and scalable. Your daily work involves partnering with development teams to integrate reliability into the CI/CD pipeline and mitigating performance bottlenecks before they impact users. To succeed, you must possess deep networking expertise in HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), and HTTPS/TLS, along with proficiency in Python or Go for automation. You will utilize tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, and Terraform while applying knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to manage complex distributed systems and improve long-term maintainability through proactive engineering.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement a next-generation observability and alerting strategy using high-cardinality data.
  • Build self-healing systems and reduce operational toil through aggressive automation of repetitive tasks.
  • Integrate reliability measures directly into the CI/CD pipeline in partnership with development teams.
  • Debug protocol-level issues and optimize traffic flow for HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), and HTTPS/TLS.
  • Manage and scale containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Lead blameless post-mortems to identify system weaknesses and harden infrastructure against future failures.
  • Integrate Generative AI tools into SRE workflows for alert design, query construction, and automated debugging.
  • Consult with product teams on service design to improve long-term maintainability and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • A B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is required, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Candidates must have an understanding of Linux internals and deep networking expertise including HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), and HTTPS/TLS.
  • Proven ability to automate repetitive tasks and complex workflows using Python or Go is required.
  • Experience configuring and managing modern monitoring suites like Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse is required.
  • A grasp of Data Structures and Algorithms is required to write efficient code and troubleshoot system bottlenecks.
  • Practical knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Release Management, and Incident Management is required.
  • Preferred experience includes managing cloud environments using Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
  • Preferred experience includes scaling and securing containerized workloads via Kubernetes.

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