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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. Private Cloud Compute (PCC)
represents a groundbreaking approach to cloud intelligence, extending the
security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud to unlock even more
intelligence for our users. This SRE team is responsible for the availability
and automation of the critical systems and services that enable PCC to deliver
cloud intelligence without compromising user privacy. If you're passionate about
building the future of privacy-preserving cloud infrastructure at scale, this is
the opportunity for you!
DESCRIPTION
We're looking for a hardworking and passionate SRE Engineer to join this amazing
team. You will be an accomplished builder and problem-solver, eager to tackle
challenging technical problems. You have a deep understanding of SRE principles
and the expertise required to operate services at Apple scale with a high degree
of operational excellence. This role will allow you to directly contribute to
shaping the future of how we build and run our services on a global scale. You
will possess strong
technical skills to dive deep into complex systems while
also understanding and contributing to higher-level business and product goals.
We seek high-quality engineers with a diverse set of experiences and skill sets.
Our customers count on us to provide extraordinary availability, scalability,
and security for services. If you’d like to positively influence millions of
customers’ experience of Apple through your technical contributions, this is the
job for you.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
In depth hands-on experience operating managed Kubernetes (GKE and/or EKS) in a
public cloud, with experience scaling distributed systems. Experience across
multiple public clouds (GCP and AWS) strongly preferred. Strong experience with
deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and
application stacks Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and
capacity planning Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using
automation to improve them through repeated iteration Confirmed ability to write
programs using a high-level programming language like: Java, Swift, Python, or
TypeScript Proclivity towards efficient programming emphasizing improvement via
complexity analysis. Experience with Nginx, Envoy, Prometheus, and/or Docker.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as: HTTP,
DNS, ECMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing
strategies. Understanding of the Linux Operating System, including Kernel,
Memory, Process, Threads, Static / Shared Libraries, IPC, Signals. Experience
with Infrastructure-as-Code and config-as-code tooling such as Pulumi,
Terraform, or Pkl. Experience with fleet/cluster lifecycle management, node
provisioning, and hardware-adjacent reliability (e.g., GPU health, capacity
management) at scale. Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for
cloud infrastructure.