Site Reliability Engineer

At Apple, we believe reliability is a feature. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in overseeing the performance and availability of our core backend services in News, Stocks, Weather, Books and Creator Studio applications.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing the next generation of our telemetry and alerting systems.
• Defining SLOs/SLIs and ensuring our monitoring strategy captures the true health of the user experience.
• Reducing operational load through software; if you have to do it twice, you'll want to automate it.
• Partnering with App Dev teams to influence the 'design for reliability' phase of the software development lifecycle.
• Acting as a technical lead for junior members and off-shore partners, providing guidance on runbook development and disaster recovery.

Skills & Qualifications

• Kubernetes Expertise: Deep experience building and operating container orchestration systems (EKS/GKE/Vanilla K8s)
• Observability Champion: Expert knowledge of the 4 Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation). Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk is essential.
• Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Scripting & Automation: Strong ability to code at a scripting level (Python or Go preferred) to automate toil and build self-healing systems.
• Incident Leadership: Experience leading incident response, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and implementing blameless post-mortems to improve system resilience.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to manage immutable infrastructure

Experience

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles with a proven track record of managing high-traffic, internet-facing production environments.
• Deep experience building and operating container orchestration systems (EKS/GKE/Vanilla K8s).
• Expert knowledge of the 4 Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation). Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk is essential.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong ability to code at a scripting level (Python or Go preferred) to automate toil and build self-healing systems.
• Experience leading incident response, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and implementing blameless post-mortems to improve system resilience.
• Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to manage immutable infrastructure

Why Join Us

• At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition