Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Payments
Are you passionate, curious, and do you have a desire to learn and explore? Can you communicate ideas clearly, thoughtfully and respectfully, to a diverse audience? Do you have a good grasp of computer science fundamentals, and a sound understanding of concurrent and asynchronous processing? The people here at Apple don’t just craft products, they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries! We believe that it’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourage the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading privacy and environmental efforts. We’re looking for talented Site reliability Engineers software engineers to join the Wallet, Payments & Commerce (WPC) Engineering Operations team. WPC organization is responsible for everything in the Apple Wallet, and all things Payments, at Apple. We build the rails on which all payments at Apple run, including for the Apple Online Store, the Apple Retail Stores around the world, and the Apple App Store. We also build the rails that make Tap to Pay on iPhone possible, by allowing iPhones to become a payment terminal, and by helping Tap to Pay on iPhone partners to process payments from iPhones.
SRE and Engineering Operations Engineers in the team take part in every aspect of the software develop lifecycle. We work in a fast-paced environment, and are responsible for hands-on coding of critical system components. We have constructive design discussions, learn from each other, and use our experience to guide and teach. We work closely with privacy and security engineering teams to ensure that the products we build go above and beyond on both fronts. We also partner closely with quality and testing teams, and understand that their success is ours as well. Onboarding will be easier for you if you have hands-on experience with Java, or another JVM-based language, and experience developing highly available, high throughput, distributed systems. Some other tech that’s relevant to us is workflow orchestration, relational and non-relational databases, message queueing, application container orchestration and cloud deployment.
- Production Experience in operationalizing large scale distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant services.
- Excellent code-debugging/optimization, analytical problem solving and analytical thinking skills.
- Experience building systems both on-premise (data center) and on public cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure welcome).
- Understanding of core SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management.
- Expertise with container platforms (e.g. Docker, or similar).
- Experience in presenting complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven track record of taking ownership and optimally delivering results
- Strong background in leading multi-functional projects
- Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.