Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

18d

About The Position

The Media Platforms SRE team under the Apple Service Engineering division 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, Apple Fitness+ and, Apple TV+. This role ensures systems are highly available, fast and efficient, interacting with various system types including public facing web & API developer services, Media Processing pipelines for audio & video transcoding, internal business tools/systems, and machine learning models. The team emphasizes a close partnership with development teams, designing and building new services together with a passion for software and automation in SRE. Services run on mixed platforms, with a focus on transitioning bare metal fleets to modern Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes micro-services, utilizing state-of-the-art observability tools and monitoring platforms.

Requirements

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 6+ years experience or MS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 4+ years experience
• At least 6 years in a Reliability Engineering, DevOps or infrastructure focused role
• Advanced experience with programming languages (Golang, Python, Java, C++)
• Deep systems and infrastructure knowledge
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills

Nice To Haves

• Passion for designing and building reliable systems
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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, Apple Fitness+ and, Apple TV+.
• Ensuring systems are highly available, fast and efficient.
• Interacting with a diverse range of system types -- public facing web & API developer services like App Store Connect & TestFlight, Media Processing pipelines that enables audio & video transcoding at scale as well as internal business tools/systems and machine learning models.
• Designing & building new services together with development teams.
• Developing a variety of tooling and infrastructure.
• Transitioning bare metal fleet to modern Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes micro-services.
• Working with state of the art observability tools and monitoring platforms.

What This Job Offers

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