Job Description
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work on some of the worlds most impactful internet services including the AppStore, Music, Books, Podcasts, and Fitness+ within Apple Services Engineering. These are revenue-critical, globally scaled services used by billions of devices worldwide. As an SRE, your mission is to ensure these services are always available, performant, and ready for growth. You will solve complex problems at scale, develop deep troubleshooting expertise, and keep a relentless focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity. You will drive a culture of operational excellence by replacing toil with automation and by building systems that are resilient by design.Own the full service lifecycle from inception and architecture through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement Partner with cross-functional teams to prepare services for production through system design consulting, deployment strategy, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews Monitor, measure, and maintain service health across availability, latency, and performance dimensions Drive sustainable scalability through automation and tooling, reducing manual operational overhead Participate in on-call rotations, lead production incident response, and contribute to blameless postmortems Establish and champion operational excellence practices across the organization Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Program Management, Security, and Infrastructure teams to embed reliability throughout the software development lifecycleBachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience 3+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems 2+ years of experience leading technical projects and providing engineering leadership Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or shell scripting)Masters degree in Computer Science or Engineering Experience with observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning at scale Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines Proven track record of driving automation to reduce operational toil in high-traffic production environments
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Cupertino, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1976 |
| Website | https://www.apple.com/jobs |
About Company
We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
About Apple
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.
Skills
- ASEunmatched
- Appleunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Building Systemsunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Computer Programmingunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Fitnessunmatched
- Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
- Health Maintenanceunmatched
- Home Automationunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Internet/Online Serviceunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Musicunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Podcastingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Controlunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Project Engineeringunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Security Infrastructureunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
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