Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apples long-held passion for combining art and technology. Join Apple Services Engineering Cloud Service Infrastructure team, as a Site Reliability Engineer, to help support and scale cloud services for millions of Apple users. We are building and supporting new and existing critical infrastructural systems and frameworks which provide and support services like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing, searching, and much more at hyperscale. These form the platform upon which many iCloud and other backend systems at Apple are built. The team is responsible for the next generation platform that will power Apples infrastructural services. These services operate at extremely large scale and store exabytes of data. The platform will support a variety of services based on open-source software, such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, Redis, etc, alongside internally developed services. Description The Apple Services Engineering Cloud Services SRE organization are domain experts in fleet management, systems, and software engineering. We build automations, instrument reliability tools, and respond to alerts and incidents which may pose a risk to the reliability of the platform. The teams focus is on infrastructure capabilities and processes, improving the reliability and efficiency of the systems, at scale. We are looking for a strong, enthusiastic developer to join as a member of this group. This person will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform of many critical Apple internet services takes for years to come. You are someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineers work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features. Minimum Qualifications

• Strong emphasis on SRE as an engineering subject area, with proficiency in at least in one of the following languages (Golang, Rust, Python, Swift)
• Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software developer
• Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration, testing methodologies, TDD and agile development methodologies
• Understanding of base internet infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, LDAP, server virtualization, server monitoring in critical, large scale distributed systems experience, combining Hardware, Operating Systems and Software
• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts, with a keen eye for opportunities to eliminate toil by code and process improvements.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working with large bare-metal infrastructure and release management.
• Experience with large scale server provisioning, fleet management and maintenance
• Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework, controllers and CRDs
• Hardware bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing)
• Automating operations processes via services and tools
Configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or others

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