About The Position
The Radar Engineering team at Apple is seeking an early-career Site Reliability Engineer to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports Radar. Radar is Apple’s primary tool for defining, tracking, and testing issues, and supports bug tracking, test case management, product management, and work management across the company. It is a high-traffic, business-critical platform used by teams throughout Apple. You will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve infrastructure behind a complex microservices ecosystem, helping keep the platform available, fast, and healthy. The role includes responding to incidents, creating alerting and dashboards, investigating production issues, contributing to root cause analysis, and automating operational tasks. You will take on increasing ownership of services as you develop, and participate in an on-call rotation with support from senior engineers. You will join a growing, highly collaborative team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. The team offers structured mentorship, training in Apple’s development practices, and support for learning and developing your skills.
Requirements
- Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, Java, or a similar language.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals.
- Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, containers, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
- Interest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI-assisted operations tools.
Responsibilities
- Monitor the health and performance of Radar’s services and respond to alerts and incidents.
- Build and improve dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and telemetry.
- Investigate production issues and contribute to root cause analysis and follow-up fixes.
- Automate operational tasks with scripts and tooling.
- Participate in an on-call rotation with support from senior engineers.
- Follow and help improve the team’s operational best practices.
- Take on increasing ownership of services as you ramp up.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
