The Site Reliability Engineer will join the Apple Service Engineering Security SRE team, focusing on operating and maturing services related to identity, token issuance, and access management. This role involves close collaboration with development teams to ensure the reliability and operational quality of customer-facing services. The engineer will participate in design and planning reviews, contributing to the security posture and operational practices of the services. A strong emphasis will be placed on managing distributed systems at scale while maintaining high availability.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure-focused role.
• Strong working experience in at least one of Golang or Swift.
• Deep experience with distributed, stateful systems operating at high scale and high availability.
• Strong understanding of networking, storage, and performance at scale.
• Experience running Tier 1 services with 24/7 support expectations.
• Knowledge of securing APIs, including authentication and authorization mechanisms for RESTful and gRPC APIs.
• Understanding of authentication protocols such as OAuth and JWT.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, or cryptographic systems.
• Strong grasp of SRE principles including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, and fault analysis.
• Experience partnering directly with product or platform engineering teams on reliability.
• Knowledge of policy-based authorization engines such as Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure the reliability and operational quality of services.
• Participate in design and planning reviews for services related to identity and access management.
• Define and drive the adoption of operational practices based on team needs and threat models.
• Contribute to production operation and incident response for critical services.
• Share ownership of service reliability and operational quality with development partners.

• 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.