Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Apple Services Engineering / iCloud

Job Description

The Apple Service Engineering - iCloud SRE team is looking for Site Reliability Engineers to build and run the services that hundreds of millions of customers use every day. This team provides systems that are foundational for many of Apple’s services such as iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime, and more.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent employment
• Experience in building and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment
• Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation and to improve them through repeated iteration
• Proven track record to write programs using a high-level programming language like: Java, Go, Python, or Perl
• Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt
• Understanding of the Linux Operating System, including Kernel, Memory, Process, Threads, Static / Shared Libraries, IPC, Signals

Responsibilities

• Deploy, support and monitor new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Use scale testing to measure, tune and optimization system performance
• Enhance, architect, author, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability and security of Apple's internet services
• Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation
• Participate in periodic on-call duties