Summary

Posted: Sep 19, 2024

Role Number:200549871

The Apple Service Engineering - SRE team is looking for Site Reliability Engineers with experience in developing processes, tools, and automation for managing distributed systems in production environments. Our SRE team combines software and systems engineering and system administration practices to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Our software ensures that Apple's services are reliable, scalable and secure, and we leverage both open source and home-grown technologies to provide managed data infrastructure services. You will help building next generation search infrastructure and platform services, collaborating cross-functionally with various ASE teams, from store and commerce to search and recommendations. You'll create platforms that can rapidly scale to serve personalized and non-personalized data with very low latencies. You should be someone who is not afraid to question assumptions, are a good standout colleague under tight deadlines, and can take on problems with elegant technical solutions.

• Success in this role requires expertise in several of the following:
• Understanding of core SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management.
• Understanding of database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics).
• Performance engineering (design concepts, profile-guided optimization).
• Service management across a bare metal, virtualized (EC2),Kubernetes platforms.
• Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers, network interfaces, CPU and memory layout in server-class systems).
• Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance).
• Datacenter architecture (networking topologies, host placement strategies, and failure modes); and wide-area networking.

• Demonstrated expertise developing database systems, storage engines, distributed systems, or performance engineering.
• Experience developing critical internet services and/or platform infrastructure.
• Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Go (golang), Python
• Optional experiencing with managing services run on Kubernetes
• Optional experience with EC2, EBS, and Terraform

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.