Site Reliability Engineer, Kafka

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted: 48 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $181k

This role $203k

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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, Kafka

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Site Reliability Engineer - Kafka joins the Service Engineering Data Streaming SRE team to build and manage large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems. You will develop tools and automation for managing infrastructure, specifically focusing on next-generation Kafka platform services that provide low-latency data delivery. Daily responsibilities include contributing to Kafka deployment infrastructure, maintenance automation, control plane enhancements, monitoring, alerting, and performance engineering through profile-guided optimization. The role involves managing service lifecycles across bare metal, virtualized EC2 instances, and Kubernetes platforms while collaborating cross-functionally to define metrics and identify optimizations. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, Go, or Python, along with experience in AWS, GCP, and Terraform for infrastructure as code. You will solve complex problems related to distributed systems, database storage engines, and multi-datacenter networking topologies to ensure reliable, scalable data infrastructure.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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Skills

Kafka Kubernetes Python Go Java AWS GCP Terraform Monitoring Alerting Incident Management Distributed Systems Performance Engineering Bare Metal EC2

What you'll do

Develop and maintain tools and automation for managing large-scale distributed systems.
Build and optimize next-generation Kafka infrastructure and platform services.
Perform deep performance engineering, including design concepts and profile-guided optimizations.
Manage service lifecycles across bare metal, virtualized (EC2), and Kubernetes platforms.
Create monitoring, alerting tools, dashboards, and incident management runbooks.
Troubleshoot and perform deep dive analysis on distributed systems and database storage engines.
Design and manage multi-datacenter systems with a focus on high availability and scalability.
Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform for cloud and datacenter environments.

What we're looking for

5 or more years of experience supporting internet-facing production services and distributed systems via deployments, On Call, and Incident Management.
5 or more years of experience running large scale infrastructure with a heavy reliance on automation tooling.
5 or more years of experience troubleshooting and performing deep dive analysis.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages including Java, Go (golang), or Python.
Operational experience managing services at scale on Kubernetes platforms.
Experience deploying and running services on Datacenter and Cloud architectures, including networking topologies and multi-datacenter systems.
Expertise developing and troubleshooting distributed systems and database storage engines.
Experience with AWS, GCP, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

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