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Apple’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – FoundationDB Infrastructure
About the Role
People at Apple don’t just build products—they craft experiences that revolutionize industries. Our diverse team of engineers, designers, and thinkers collaborates to innovate across broad sectors. Join our FoundationDB engineering team and contribute to the infrastructure shaping Apple’s services for millions worldwide.
The Apple Services Engineering team delivers the systems and infrastructure powering critical services like iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll design, deploy, and maintain the distributed systems enabling seamless, high-availability experiences for users.
Key Responsibilities
- Global Infrastructure Ownership: Operate FoundationDB, Apple’s distributed database system, across multi-regional data centers (bare-metal, AWS, and Kubernetes). Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance across hundreds of millions of daily users.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with development partners to refine robust database solutions, fostering seamless engineering integration (e.g., CloudKit for Mail, Contacts, and Keychain).
- Automation & Optimization: Develop Java/Go-based automation tools, including Apple’s open-source Kubernetes Operator (GitHub). Turn manual processes into efficient, repeatable systems.
- Linux-Ecosystem Expertise: Triage issues from device drivers to network traffic management in Linux environments, leveraging open-source, vendor, and proprietary tools for configuration, deployment, and monitoring.
- Distributed System Debugging: Solve large-scale challenges—debug latency, capacity planning, or disaster recovery—using data driven approaches and teamwork.
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Minimum Qualifications
- Problem-Solving & Kindsness: Prioritize clear communication, collaboration, ownership, and ownership of infrastructure issues.
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Direct experience maintaining and scaling systems on cloud environments (public/private/hybrid).
- Language Competency: Proficient in Go, Java, or Python for deploying scalable code solutions.
- Automation & Improvement: Strong track record of automating operations, iterating on their design, and continuous optimization.
- Linux Proficiency: Deep understanding of Linux OS, networking (protocols/protocols), TCP/IP, and system substance components.
- Configuration Management: Hands-on experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Spinnaker for system provisioning, deployment, and software delivery.
- Service Ops: Experience deploying, supporting, and monitoring platforms (microservices, VMs, and containers).
- Troubleshooting: Excel at debugging complex issues and proactively testing scale, resilience, and return times.
- Microservices & Containers: Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and distributed workflows.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes Algorithms (CRDs, RBAC, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling), and Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring.
- Knowledge of database synchronization (e.g. CDC) or distributed data systems (e.g. RocksDB, MongoDB).
- Extensive devops toolchain usage, including scripting (Linux/Python/Go), ** Sekrit Yoshida – Fugitive Automation Generators).
Why Join Apple?
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Individual incentives balance scaling products with user impact, rewarding innovation; good ideas go far.
- Global Influence: Your work spans billion-user scale, driving world-changing enhancements.
- Diverse Collaboration: Extract insight from varying experts, fostering mutual growth and big-picture contributions.
- Commitment to Accessibility & Inclusion: Fluidity shapes Apple’s norm. Your contributions contribute to equitable workplace culture.
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