Apple Service Engineering

• SRE Software Engineer

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The Apple Service Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple's services (such as i Cloud, i Tunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

About the Role

Apple Service Engineering (ASE)'s Compute team is seeking an experienced SRE software engineer to build and enhance Kubernetes internals, ensuring that services scale to meet the demands of Apple's Services offerings. You will work with world-class engineers on core components of Kubernetes with an emphasis on controllers and infrastructure to manage namespaces to help fit Apple's diverse needs while engaging with the upstream community to drive Apple's requirements. Ultimately, you will help build the platform that delivers our applications at scale to our end users.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.
• Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production environments.
• Design, build and implement innovative solutions around Kubernetes in a highly distributed environment.
• Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime.
• Automate deployment and orchestration of services into the cloud environment as well as other routine processes.
• Interact with and support partner teams, including engineering, QA, and program management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Automation advocate with a strong sense of ownership - you truly believe in removing operational load via software.
• Strong experience with building and scaling core components of Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
• Highly Proficient in Golang
• Be capable of collaborating and coordinating with multiple distinct engineering teams and mentoring others
• Experienced with highly distributed unix systems.

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.