Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering

Apple Inc

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering

JOB TITLE: Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering The Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering joins the Information Systems and Technology organization to ensure the reliability of systems connecting products with customers. This role involves independently owning critical systems end-to-end, architecting highly available infrastructure, and setting technical direction for reliability practices like incident response and service-level objectives. You will drive capacity planning, manage production-scale database and storage systems, and design infrastructure-as-code standards. The position requires expertise in Linux, Git, Jenkins, Vagrant, and Kubernetes. Candidates must possess skills in Python or Go, configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible, and experience with storage platforms such as NetApp and Isilon. This role solves the technical challenge of maintaining high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms and interactive marketing experiences globally.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $183038 from 124 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and own highly available, resilient systems across infrastructure, storage, and cloud platforms.
  • Set technical direction for reliability practices including on-call strategy, incident response, and service-level objectives.
  • Drive proactive capacity and scalability planning through load testing and forecasting.
  • Lead major incident response and conduct postmortems to drive permanent root-cause fixes.
  • Design and evolve infrastructure-as-code and automation standards for the team.
  • Administer and scale critical database and storage systems at production scale.
  • Mentor engineers and review designs to raise the technical rigor bar across the team.
  • Embed reliability, scalability, and observability requirements into the development lifecycle.

What we're looking for

  • 5 years of hands-on experience as a systems, storage, or cloud engineer with technical ownership of production systems at scale.
  • Knowledge of Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) utilities and internals.
  • Expertise in version control (Git) and automated build/test systems (Jenkins, Vagrant).
  • Expertise in Kubernetes platform experience, on-premise or cloud.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud infrastructure platform, including architecture-level decisions.
  • Hands-on experience with storage platforms (NetApp, Isilon, object storage) at scale.
  • Hands-on experience in configuration management (Puppet, Ansible).
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade x86-based hardware platforms.
  • Automation skills in Python or Go.
  • Knowledge of basic networking, internet, and web technologies including IPv4/IPv6, DNS, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS, and debugging web applications.
  • Experience building or scaling an internal platform/tooling adopted broadly across infrastructure teams (preferred).
  • Background supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms (preferred).
  • Experience mentoring or leading a small team of SREs, influencing technical direction across teams (preferred).
  • Proven ability to independently drive a reliability initiative from design through production and long-term ownership (preferred).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences (preferred).
  • Practical experience with GitOps infrastructure automation (preferred).
  • Deep experience with multi-platform cloud and on-premise applications at scale, particularly with AWS and/or Alicloud (preferred).
  • Experience migrating bare metal/virtualized applications and infrastructure to containerized cloud deployments (preferred).
  • Experience building web applications and services at scale in Go (preferred).
  • Experience with large-scale systems performance tuning, replication, and failover as part of an SRE role (preferred).
  • Experience with security hardening of production infrastructure at scale (preferred).

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