Apple - Seattle, WA
posted 3 months ago
The Apple Services Engineering team is at the forefront of merging art and technology, and the Cloud Service Infrastructure team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and scale cloud services for millions of Apple users. This role involves building and maintaining critical infrastructural systems and frameworks that provide essential services such as structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing, and searching at a hyperscale level. These systems form the backbone of many iCloud and backend services at Apple, operating at an enormous scale and managing exabytes of data. The SRE team is responsible for developing the next generation platform that will underpin Apple's infrastructural services, utilizing a variety of open-source software technologies including Kubernetes, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, and Redis, alongside proprietary solutions. As a member of the Apple Services Engineering Cloud Services SRE organization, you will have significant individual responsibility and influence over the core platform that supports critical Apple internet services. Your contributions will directly impact hundreds of millions of users and play a vital role in the success of both current and future Apple features. The team specializes in fleet management, systems, and software engineering, focusing on automating processes, building reliability tools, and responding to incidents that could jeopardize platform reliability. The emphasis is on enhancing infrastructure capabilities and processes to improve system reliability and efficiency at scale. This position is ideal for someone passionate about software as a service, with a strong desire to enhance reuse, efficiency, and simplicity in engineering practices.