Senior Infrastructure SRE

Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apples most critical services. Operating at our scale across multiple geographically dispersed data centers and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges. nn As a Storage SRE at Apple youll need to solve these problems using your deep understanding of storage data analysis programming teamwork and expertise in Linux system internals. Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management.

We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Storage SRE team at Apple. You are solution-oriented and have a passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse efficiency and simplicity. Your work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.n

The role involves understanding the teams priorities; taking ownership of projects or deliverables; designing solutions and building buy-in for those designs; and successful and timely delivery of those designs. Members of our team are expected to be comfortable giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist them in the delivery of their designs features and projects as well as driving technical standards across the distributed team in collaboration with key team has an on-call rota including the week-ends and the successful candidate should expect to handle alerts and other escalations in order to maintain a high level of availability and functionality for our provided services. The team is divided into two shards in UK and US and cross-timezone meetings are a core feature of how our team collaborates reaches agreements and executes to deliver Apple Cloud we run a mix of open source vendor licensed and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management provisioning software development u0026 deployment logging and monitoring. Youll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. We think critically and strive to balancenthe best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experiencen5 years of experience in building operating and scaling distributed storage systems in a private public or hybrid cloud environmentnThe ability to design author understand and release code in languages like Go (preferred) Java Python or understanding of block object and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM XFS ext4 S3 Ceph Gluster NFS)nUnderstanding of Linux internals standard networking protocols and distributed systems and experience with provisioning data migration backup u0026 recovery at-scale testing disaster recovery and capacity Degree in Computer Science an engineering-related field or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet Chef Ansible and Spinnaker)nExperience with deploying supporting and monitoring new and existing services platforms and application stacksnFamiliarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with KubernetesnFamiliarity with relational u0026 non-relational databases (such as Cassandra Postgres u0026 RocksDB)