Software Delivery - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Posted: Nov 13, 2023

Role Number:200520582

Apple’s Software Delivery team is looking for an innovative Senior SRE with experience managing physical infrastructure and cloud solutions to design, build, and maintain our core infrastructure. This infrastructure enables thousands of Apple software engineers to develop products that delight millions of Apple customers. As a Senior SRE you will help lead and mentor other engineers as well as communicate with senior leadership.

Key Qualifications

5+ years in a Infrastructure Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps focused role
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
In depth knowledge of Linux and Unix
Experienced in deploying and managing infrastructure using config management like Puppet and/or Ansible
Strong programming skills: Shell, Go, and/or Python

Description

Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable infrastructure 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. - Build monitoring and alerting systems for early issue detection. - Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance. - Create runbooks for incidents and issues. - Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor infrastructure components. - Work across multiple time zones.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or equivalent working experience.

Additional Requirements

Preferred Experience:
- Experience gathering and analyzing system resource metrics and logs to triage issues.
- Experience with capacity planning including calculating power and cooling requirements.
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
- Ability to implement and coordinate telemetry using monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (zones, regions, VPCs, etc.)
- Working understanding of common authentication schemes, certificates, and securely managing secrets
- Leadership experience related to SRE and/or operationally focused teams.
- Operational experience running a production 24x7 infrastructure at scale
- On-premise hands on experience working in Data Centers with infrastructure at scale.
- Previous experience working with software development teams shipping software at scale.

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 $160,700.00 and $282,500.00, 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.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.