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Apple

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

Seattle, WA

Summary

Posted: May 24, 2021

Role Number: 200211677

The Apple Media Products Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, forward-thinking, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

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Key Qualifications

  • At least 5 years in a Reliability Engineering, DevOps or infrastructure focused role
  • Passion for designing and building reliable systems
  • Advanced experience with programming languages (GoLang, Python, Java, C++)
  • Deep systems and infrastructure knowledge
  • Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operation load with software
  • Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
  • Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality


Description

Apple Media Content SRE is responsible for designing, building and running a diverse set of services that ingest, transform and manage all media content across products like the App Store, Apple Music and, Apple TV+. Whether it's the latest episode of the Morning Show, a new album from your favorite artist or a brand new iOS app destined for the App Store you will make sure our systems are highly available, fast and efficient. You'll interact with a diverse range of system types -- public facing web & API developer services like App Store Connect & TestFlight, pipeline based transformation systems such as iOS binary processing and audio & video transcoding as well as internal business systems and machine learning models. Culturally we believe in a close partnership with our development teams and aim to design & build new services together. We're passionate about software and automation in SRE and develop a variety of tooling and infrastructure. Our services run on mixed platforms - many run on our bare metal fleet which you will help transition to new Kubernetes microservices.

Education & Experience

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment)

Additional Requirements

Job ID: apple-200211677
Employment Type: Other

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