Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple•Austin, TX

About The Position

Apple is looking for a Senior Engineer with systems and software engineering experience to join our Satellite Connectivity Group SRE team. The SRE team builds, monitors, and maintains large scale, highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite. You'll be contributing to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services. This is a rare opportunity to build and control the entire end to end infrastructure, along with all supporting components such as provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software tools platforms, from the beginning within a team with a no-ops culture. You will build and run an Apple service enabling platform that millions of customers may rely on every day. You’ll also build and run the infrastructure that powers those services with emphasis on build, not just operate or implement. We’re looking for people who like to solve problems using software rather than shell prompts as we scale Apple’s services for customers around the world. Help us build the Apple experience on a global scale!

Requirements

Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability
Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)
Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services
Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms
Understanding of zero-trust application architecture
Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc.
Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure
Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)
Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, VIPs, load balancers, proxies
Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required
Infrastructure As Code (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS and/or GCP
Experience with OLAP databases (ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc.)
Experience with OpenTelemetry (edited)
Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirements
Able to write software tools & services needed to build and operate a large scale platform
Proficient with Puppet.
Experience with IP network design and architecture; Cisco, Juniper, or Arista routing and switching hardware & configuration
Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies.
Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
Education: Technical engineering BS is a positive but not required