at Apple
Location
San Diego, United States of America
Compensation
$140k–$258k USD
Type
full time
Posted
4 months ago
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Posted $258k · in the market band
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As a SRE, you won’t just be responding to alerts; you will be shaping the evolution of our observability strategy, a mentor for incident management, and a champion for automation. You will help us refine our "Golden Signals" and ensure our Kubernetes-based ecosystem remains world-class.
System Architecture: Designing and implementing the next generation of our telemetry and alerting systems.
Reliability Engineering: Defining SLOs/SLIs and ensuring our monitoring strategy captures the true health of the user experience.
Operational Excellence: Reducing operational load through software; if you have to do it twice, you’ll want to automate it.
Collaboration: Partnering with App Dev teams to influence the "design for reliability" phase of the software development lifecycle.
Mentorship: Acting as a technical lead for junior members and off-shore partners, providing guidance on runbook development and disaster recovery.
Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles with a proven track record of managing high-traffic, internet-facing production environments.
Kubernetes Expertise: Deep experience building and operating container orchestration systems (EKS/GKE/Vanilla K8s). You should be comfortable troubleshooting from the networking layer up to the application pod.
Observability Champion: Expert knowledge of the 4 Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation). Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk is essential.
Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Scripting & Automation: Strong ability to code at a scripting level (Python or Go preferred) to automate toil and build self-healing systems.
Incident Leadership: Experience leading incident response, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and implementing blameless post-mortems to improve system resilience.
Infrastructure as Code: Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to manage immutable infrastructure.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Search & Data: Specialized experience operating and tuning Solr or Elasticsearch at scale.
Networking: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, Load Balancing (ELB/ALB), and Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
Data Systems: Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, or Postgres in a distributed environment.
Do you love building and scaling infrastructure that delights millions of customers? At Apple, we believe reliability is a feature. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in overseeing the performance and availability of our core backend services in News, Stocks, Weather, Books and Creator Studio applications.
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.
Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace
Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.
Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace
Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.
Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace
Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
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