Lead SRE

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) teams build and scale the platforms and infrastructure behind many of Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love.

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Senior Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership on our team to help ensure our customers have the highest quality Apple Services experience. The Apple Data Platform (ADP) Compute SRE team is responsible for the core infrastructure, including our legacy bare-metal platforms and modern cloud based infrastructure stack. We partner with both peer SRE teams and several of our world-class software and product engineering teams to support infrastructure reliability, multi-year parallel migrations for Apple properties, as well as the automation, tooling, incident, and process management necessary to ensure smooth 24x7 operations for ADP customers.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, specifically managing infrastructure and services at scale
• 5+ years of experience in management or technical leadership roles
• 5+ years of proficiency in running applications and managing Kubernetes clusters on Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or GCP
• Proven history of end-to-end project management and delivery
• Demonstrable programming skills for developing software/tools and leading code reviews
• Advanced knowledge of Linux, Networking, and Containers

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SRE or related work managing infrastructure at scale
• Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, and/or Druid.
• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
• Ability to define the technical roadmap for infrastructure and drive cross-functional alignment on architectural standards and best practices