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Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Systems

2 days ago Austin, TX

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Description

The Customer Systems Team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer. In this role you will design, build and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure cloud infrastructure which powers the applications and services used by Apple's customers every day. You will work closely with cross functional teams, business leaders and other partners across Apple to implement new solutions. If infrastructure as code, automation and intelligent monitoring excites you then this is the job for you.

In this highly visible position, you will:

Responsibilities:

Innovate, architect, build, and document highly available, scalable, reliable, secure Infrastructure

Troubleshoot application specific, network, system & performance issues

Build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure to enable fast delivery cycles for software engineering teams

Envision and build automation tools to deliver infrastructure services reliably and in a repeatable fashion

Collaborate with other site reliability engineers, software engineers, quality engineers, to gather, define, and analyze non-functional/technical requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills

Good communication skills to collaborate with distributed teams

Experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase databases, AWS S3 or similar storage technologies

Experience in deploying, monitoring and supporting java applications

Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps model

Experience in defining, monitoring and achieving key operational metrics like MTTR and SLO

Experience with GenAI tools in workflow automation for infrastructure management

Ability to learn new technologies in a short time

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience in designing and building resilient, large-scale, low latency, cloud and on-prem Infrastructure including Compute, Storage, and Network

3+ years of experience with deploying/managing Kubernetes using Helm

Experience with Shell Scripting, Python, or Ansible

Experience in monitoring using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager

Deep understanding of networking protocols: DNS, TCP, HTTP/HTTPS

Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX
Job ID: apple-200662993-0157
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-05-21T19:40:41

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion

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