Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Apple Data Platform

Job Description

Apple Services Engineering is seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability Engineers to help sustain the mission of providing the highest quality experience for customers through designing and maintaining systems, platforms, and infrastructure.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
• 5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
• Proficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platforms
• Experience operating production applications at scale, including performance testing, HA and disaster recovery concepts, capacity planning, and managing distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes
• Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers and virtualization, standard networking protocols, and components
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration
• Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills using the scientific method

Responsibilities

• Manage infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms for data processing, governance, and storage
• Collaborate with partner engineering teams to deliver seamless experiences for customers
• Apply incident management process across all data platform services and provide user journey-based SLOs derived from observability metrics, high availability architecture, and automation for deployments
• Balance long-term optimal solutions with business priorities for each engineering challenge

Benefits

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.