ASE Compute - Lead SRE Software Engineer

Apple • San Francisco, CA

2h

About The Position

The ASE Compute team is seeking a senior SRE software engineer to own the technical direction of the Kubernetes internals that power Apple services. The role sets architecture for controllers and namespace-management infrastructure, improves the reliability of Kubernetes services, and engages with the upstream community to advance Apple's requirements. The engineer will implement complex components, guide team output through design reviews and mentoring, and build tools that enable others to contribute. Service teams across Apple will rely on this person as a technical authority on the platform's capabilities and direction. The position also offers the opportunity to develop AI-assisted tooling for triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure automation.

Apple Service Engineering builds and provides the systems and infrastructure behind services including iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps. These systems support services that must scale globally and remain highly available.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
• At least 8 years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused role.
• Deep experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments in production.
• Strong systems background and ability to troubleshoot across networking, operating systems, container runtimes, and applications.
• Expert-level Go skills.
• A track record of shipping and owning controllers or operators that other teams depend on.
• Experience with configuration management at scale, such as Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives to completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with third-party cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management at datacenter scale.
• Understanding of cloud-native observability tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk, or similar.
• Experience running infrastructure as an internal managed service with defined SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of Kubernetes internals used by Apple's services.
• Set the architecture for controllers and namespace-management infrastructure.
• Strengthen the reliability of Kubernetes services.
• Engage with the upstream community to drive Apple's requirements.
• Implement complex technical components.
• Raise the quality and capability of the team's work through design reviews, mentoring, and tools.
• Serve as a technical authority for service teams across Apple on platform capabilities and direction.
• Build AI-assisted tooling for triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure automation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior