Senior Site Reliability Engineer – ASE / Cloudkit

Summary

Posted:Apr 11, 2025

Weekly Hours:40

Role Number:200597027

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft experiences our customers love and depend on. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds and supports the systems that make many of these daily experiences possible. If you’ve used Apple products, you’ve likely interacted with us. iCloud Services SRE teams are responsible for the systems and services that directly support our customers and their experiences every minute of every day. We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus on providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and “just work.” If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!!!

Description

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Our best candidates have proven software development skills, strong distributed systems expertise, understand SRE principles, and know what it will take to run services at Apple scale. We play a critical role in the day-to-day operations of services that are relied upon across Apple. The CloudKit SRE team supports that global platform of services that enable many of the experiences in the Apple ecosystem. Our team focuses on high velocity, high scale, and highly reliable distributed systems in a global deployment. Be part of a team working on challenging and fast-paced projects and in addition work closely with the development teams to aid in the architectural design and assist with the implementation of complex new features.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in managing and scaling large distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment
• Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Skills and experience in monitoring, alerting, fault analysis, and automation
• Programming experience in Go, Python, or Java
• Ability to participate in on call service support

Preferred Qualifications

• Fast learner who is generous with their knowledge
• Experience managing customer-facing internet scale systems
• Experience with Linux/Unix, Networking, Systems Management, Systems Security

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 $166,600 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.