ASE Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Posted: Feb 8, 2025

Role Number:200587747

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, forward-thinking, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Description

Apple Services Engineering team is looking for an innovative SRE with experience managing physical infrastructure and cloud solutions to design, build, and maintain our core infrastructure. This infrastructure enables thousands of Apple Developers to submit their Apps to the App Store that delight millions of Apple customers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable reliability solutions. Play a vital role in incident response to diagnose and resolve problems minimizing outages and downtime in a high pressure and large scale environment. Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance. Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor infrastructure components. Work across multiple time zones. Ability to autonomously manage cross functional projects, communicate expectations, set timelines and drive to completion Experience supporting data center operation, distributed systems, and production services

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.
• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps focused role

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to autonomously manage cross functional projects, communicate expectations, set timelines and drive to completion
• In depth knowledge of Linux and Unix
• Experienced in deploying and managing infrastructure using config management like Puppet and/or Ansible
• Programming skills: Python and/or Go

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.