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

Apple

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
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Job description

The Apple Service Engineering - iCloud SRE team is seeking Site Reliability Engineers to build and maintain services used by millions of customers daily. This role involves ensuring the availability, scalability, and security of foundational services like iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime. Candidates should possess strong software development skills alongside expertise in Linux, systems, and cloud environments. The team emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving to deliver effective engineering solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through clear communication.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent employment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full infrastructure stack from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management.
  • Solve problems using data, teamwork, and expertise.
  • Collaborate closely with development teams to deliver optimal results.
  • Eliminate repetitive manual processes using automation and improve them through iteration.
  • Engage in scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

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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