About the role

What will you do at Apple?

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience

that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people

and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could

do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple

Services Engineering (ASE) is responsible for designing and maintaining the

systems, platforms, and infrastructure that support Apple's global services,

such as Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, Maps, and many more. Our work forms the

foundation upon which our world-class software developers build the products our

customers love. We are seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability

Engineers to help us sustain our mission of providing the highest quality

experience for our customers. ASE services must scale globally, remain highly

available and consistently performant. If you are passionate about designing,

engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of

customers, then this is the place for you!

DESCRIPTION

Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site

Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on

bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing, governance,

and storage for many of Apple’s global products and organizations. Our platform

teams work with exabytes of data, terabytes of memory, and hundreds of thousands

of jobs running millions of executors to support predicable and performant data

analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music, TV, Maps, News, and

other world class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically

distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent 5+ years of software development or

production operations experience in a large-scale environment Proficiency in

authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration

management and software delivery platforms Experience operating production

applications at scale, including well designed performance testing, HA and

disaster recovery concepts, capacity planning, and managing distributed systems

on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes

Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers and virtualization,

standard networking protocols, and components Strong sense of ownership and

integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration

Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills using the

scientific method

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and

troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as

Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, Trino, and/or Druid. Proficiency in managing

applications and infra on AWS, GCP and Ali Cloud. The successful candidate is

frustrated with toil and has an acute drive to both automate manual operations

and evolve them into automatic processes.

Which skills does this role require?

Site Reliability EngineeringGoPythonJavaKubernetesLinuxCloud ComputingDistributed SystemsCapacity PlanningDisaster RecoveryInfrastructure AutomationNetworking ProtocolsVirtualizationApple Data PlatformBare-metalAutomationInfrastructureNetworkingSoftware EngineeringProduction OperationsScalability

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