Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Apple Data Platform

Apple • Austin, TX

74d

About The Position

People at Apple don't just build products - they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is responsible for designing and maintaining the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that support Apple's global services, such as Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, Maps, and many more. Our work forms the foundation upon which our world-class software developers build the products our customers love. We are seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability Engineers to help us sustain our mission of providing the highest quality experience for our customers. ASE services must scale globally, remain highly available, and consistently perform flawlessly. If you are passionate about designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing, governance, and storage for many of Apple's global products and organizations. Our platform teams work with exabytes of data, terabytes of memory, and hundreds of thousands of jobs running millions of executors to support predictable and performant data analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music, TV, Maps, News, and other world-class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve problems that arise using empirical data, teamwork, and your own unique expertise.

Requirements

• Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics and data governance technologies.
• Experience with Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, or other related software.
• Strong problem-solving skills using empirical data and teamwork.
• Drive to automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms.
• Deliver data processing, governance, and storage for Apple's global products.
• Collaborate with partner engineering teams and software developers.
• Apply a consistent incident management process across all data platform services.
• Provide user journey based SLOs derived from observability metrics.
• Ensure high availability architecture and automation for deployments.
• Balance long-term optimal solutions with business priorities.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees