Site Reliability Engineer - Info Apps

Do you love building and scaling infrastructure that delights millions of customers? At Apple, we believe reliability is a feature. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in overseeing the performance and availability of our core backend services in News, Stocks, Weather, Books and Creator Studio applications.//n//nAs a SRE, you won't just be responding to alerts; you will be shaping the evolution of our observability strategy, a mentor for incident management, and a champion for automation. You will help us refine our ///"Golden Signals///" and ensure our Kubernetes-based ecosystem remains world-class. In this role, you will be a key pillar of our engineering organization, ensuring that our services remain highly available and performant. Your impact will include:/n/nSystem Architecture: Designing and implementing the next generation of our telemetry and alerting systems./n/nReliability Engineering: Defining SLOs/SLIs and ensuring our monitoring strategy captures the true health of the user experience./n/nOperational Excellence: Reducing operational load through software; if you have to do it twice, you'll want to automate it./n/nCollaboration: Partnering with App Dev teams to influence the /"design for reliability/" phase of the software development lifecycle./n/nMentorship: Acting as a technical lead for junior members and off-shore partners, providing guidance on runbook development and disaster recovery. Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles with a proven track record of managing high-traffic, internet-facing production environments./nKubernetes Expertise: Deep experience building and operating container orchestration systems (EKS/GKE/Vanilla K8s). You should be comfortable troubleshooting from the networking layer up to the application pod./nObservability Champion: Expert knowledge of the 4 Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation). Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk is essential./nCloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining resilient infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)./nScripting & Automation: Strong ability to code at a scripting level (Python or Go preferred) to automate toil and build self-healing systems./nIncident Leadership: Experience leading incident response, performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and implementing blameless post-mortems to improve system resilience./nInfrastructure as Code: Proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to manage immutable infrastructure. Search & Data: Specialized experience operating and tuning Solr or Elasticsearch at scale./nNetworking: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, Load Balancing (ELB/ALB), and Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)./nData Systems: Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, or Postgres in a distributed environment.

Created: 2026-03-08