Storage Platform Engineer (SRE)

Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and runningthe next generation distributed storage systems to support Apples most critical services. Operating atour scale across multiple geographically dispersed data centres and servicing users with vast dataneed presents unique challenges. As a member of Storage SRE at Apple youll need to solve theseproblems using your deep understanding of infrastructure storage data analysis programmingteamwork and expertise in Linux system internals.

We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Object 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 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 globally distributed 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 balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

Experience in building operating and scaling distributed storage systems in a private publicor hybrid cloud 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 XFSext4 S3 Ceph Gluster NFS).nUnderstanding of Linux internals standard networking protocols and distributed with provisioning data migration backup u0026 recovery at-scale testing disasterrecovery and capacity planning.

Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management failure domains hardware lifecycle management drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated -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 with microservices architecture and container orchestration with with relational u0026 non-relational databases (such as Cassandra Postgres u0026 RocksDB).nFamiliarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with with relational u0026 non-relational databases (such as Cassandra Postgres u0026 RocksDB).