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Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform

Apple

Location

Austin, TX

Type

Full-time

Posted

7/30/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

Apple Services Engineering is seeking innovative Site Reliability Engineers to maintain and enhance the infrastructure that supports Apple's global services. The role involves managing applications and infrastructure on both bare-metal and cloud platforms to ensure high availability and performance. The team works with vast amounts of data and is responsible for key features in products like Apple Music and Maps. Candidates should be passionate about designing and running systems that impact millions of customers.

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.
  • Experience operating production applications at scale, including performance testing and managing distributed systems.
  • Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers, virtualization, and standard networking protocols.
  • Proficiency with open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Flink, Hive, or Hadoop.
  • Experience managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Ali Cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain systems and infrastructure for Apple's global services.
  • Ensure high availability and performance of services at a planetary scale.
  • Collaborate with platform teams to manage large-scale data processing and storage.
  • Automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.
  • Troubleshoot and solve problems using a scientific approach.

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.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Apple Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

1,065

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

9,221

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+30%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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