Site Reliability Engineer — Human Engineering

Apple Inc

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Austin, TX Posted 9 days ago

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TL;DR

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Human Engineering, you will join a team of software engineers developing web-based tools and native applications for Apple teams. This role involves designing and operating systems that support 50+ services across Kubernetes and AWS, handling sensitive health and research data. You will focus on reliability engineering by managing deployments, scaling, capacity planning, and implementing SLO-driven observability. Additionally, you will collaborate with the architecture team to design service-to-service authentication, event-driven messaging pipelines, and API gateway patterns. Your responsibilities also include enabling efficient engineering practices through CI/CD pipeline management, GitOps workflows, and building internal automation tools. The ideal candidate has deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS services, infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, and proficiency in backend languages such as Python or Go.

Skills

Kubernetes AWS Terraform Python Django PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Elasticsearch CI/CD GitOps Helm TLS DNS ServiceMesh Istio Envoy Grafana Prometheus SLO DistributedTracing OIDC APIGateway

What you'll do

  • Own the reliability of Kubernetes-hosted services across AWS and self-hosted clusters.
  • Design and implement SLO-driven observability for production systems.
  • Partner with architecture team on system design, including service-to-service authentication.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools and platforms for event-driven messaging.
  • Write code to automate deployment operators, health checks, and data pipeline components.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience in distributed systems
  • Deep production experience with Kubernetes: cluster operations, networking, storage, troubleshooting
  • Strong proficiency in AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC)
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm)
  • Proficiency in backend language for writing production services (Python, Go)
  • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and implementing GitOps workflows
  • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS, firewall rules

Market check

Salary context

This listing doesn't show a salary. Similar roles on FindRole typically pay $119,900–$199,000.

Peer median band

$119,900$199,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$128,831$202,496

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 238 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Apple Inc

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

Apple Inc currently has 43 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $147,400–$272,100 across 35 roles with salary data.

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