{"title": "Senior Site Reliability Engineer", "summary": "Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple\u2019s 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 Apple\u2019s 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 is 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 engineer\u2019s 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. We 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. Team\u2019s 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 engineer\u2019s 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. Desired Skills: \u2022 Experience with large scale server provisioning and maintenance (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell) \u2022 Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework, controllers and CRDs \u2022 Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular or JQuery Some exposure to the following: \u2022 Hardware bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing) \u2022 Structured or unstructured storage and caching \u2022 Automating operations processes via services and tools \u2022 Configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or others \u2022 Cloud Services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront or equivalent)", "key_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) \u2022 Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software developer \u2022 Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration, testing methodologies, TDD and agile development methodologies \u2022 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 \u2022 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.", "preferred_qualifications": "", "education_experience": "Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.", "additional_requirements": "", "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 $135,400 and $250,600, 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You\u2019ll 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 \u2014 including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.", "company": "apple"}