Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform

People at Apple dont just build products they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is responsible for designing and maintaining the systems platforms and infrastructure that support Apples global services such as Apple Music iCloud Siri Maps and many more. Our work forms the foundation upon which our world-class software developers build the products our customers love. We are seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability Engineers to help us sustain our mission of providing the highest quality experience for our customers. ASE services must scale globally remain highly available and consistently performant. If you are passionate about designing engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers then this is the place for you!

Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing governance and storage for many of Apples global products and organizations. Our platform teams work with exabytes of data terabytes of memory and hundreds of thousands of jobs running millions of executors to support predicable and performant data analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music TV Maps News and other world class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges.

Youll need to solve problems that arise using empirical data teamwork and your own unique expertise. nData Platform Services SREs work directly with our partner engineering teams tightly collaborating with the software developers to deliver seamless experiences for our customers. nWe run a mix of open source vendor licensed and proprietary tools which you will use and have opportunities to improve upon. nThe cross functional team collaborates to ensure we apply a consistent incident management process across all data platform services and provide user journey based SLOs derived from exhaustive observability metrics high availability architecture and automation for deployments. nWe think critically and strive to balance long-term optimal solutions with the business priorities for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalentn5 years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environmentnProficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go Python or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platformsnExperience operating production applications at scale including well designed performance testing HA and disaster recovery concepts capacity planning and managing distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure principally KubernetesnUnderstanding of the Linux Operating System containers and virtualization standard networking protocols and componentsnStrong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaborationnDemonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills using the scientific methodnn

Proficiency with the architecture deployment performance tuning and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Flink Hive Hadoop/HDFS Trino and/or in managing applications and infra on AWS GCP and Ali successful candidate is frustrated with toil and has an acute drive to both automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.