Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Data Platform Infra SRE
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As a principal contributor in our Apple Data Platform SRE organization you will apply SRE principles as you mentor and partner with our engineers and partner teams, ensuring petabyte-scale analytics infrastructure runs reliably and efficiently. This role focuses on managing bare-metal and cloud based infrastructure, levering and extending our infrastructure-as-code based tooling, analyzing and optimizing performance, helping to plan and execute long term fleet management logistics, capacity planning, and ultimately maintaining operational excellence across distributed data platforms that power analytics across Apple. This role includes production on-call responsibilities.
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Apple Service Engineering (ASE) teams build and scale the platforms and infrastructure behind many of Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Senior Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership on our team to help ensure our customers have the highest quality Apple Services experience. The Apple Data Platform (ADP) Compute SRE team is responsible for the core infrastructure, including our legacy bare-metal platforms and modern cloud based infrastructure stack. We partner with both peer SRE teams and several of our world-class software and product engineering teams to support infrastructure reliability, multi-year parallel migrations for Apple properties, as well as the automation, tooling, incident, and process management necessary to ensure smooth 24x7 operations for ADP customers.","responsibilities":"Principal/Lead SRE for ADP Compute SRE team, mentoring other ICs, and partnering with other senior engineers to ensure service architecture, tooling, design, and implementations are of the highest quality.
Identifying efficiency improvements in technical operations and training partner teams, leading by example.
Managing infrastructure fleet capacity, growth, and hardware lifecycle with innovative tooling, effective planning, and proactive check-ins with our leadership and program management teams.
Providing technical leadership for Hadoop and Kubernetes infrastructure, tooling (including infrastructure-as-code), and services.
Programming in Python and Golang supported by Generative AI tooling to accelerate development of mission critical automation and tools.
Proactive collaboration and presentation skills to effectively communicate ideas and represent the deliverables and needs of the SRE team with ASE leadership.
Production on-call and incident management responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications
15+ YoE in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale
Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Ability to define the technical roadmap for infrastructure and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices
Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, managing infrastructure and services at scale
5+ years of experience in management or technical leadership roles
History of end-to-end project management and delivery
Demonstrable programming skills to both develop software/tools and lead code reviews
Experience managing Hadoop and Kubernetes infrastructure and related services, or equivalent experience
Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers
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Pay & Benefits
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 $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
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