Apple · 2 months ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Apple Ads
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
10+ years expApple is a technology company that focuses deeply on customer experience. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in Apple Ads, you will own the health, performance, and scalability of ad-serving infrastructure, leading initiatives to improve service resilience and eliminate manual processes.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services such as EKS, MSK, and ElastiCache
Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility
Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence
Design and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments
Lead or participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce future risk
This is not a DevOps-only or CI/CD-focused role. We are looking for engineers who build platform solutions, not just configure pipelines
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure
3+ years of experience as a technical lead, guiding teams through complex design decisions and setting high benchmarks for reliability, performance, and scalability
Strong programming skills in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java
Proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure
Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep knowledge of its internals
Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code with systems like CloudFormation, Terraform and Crossplane
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence product reliability through a combination of technical leadership and user-centered thinking
Passion for operational excellence, automation, and delivering scalable, developer-friendly infrastructure
Strong foundation in SRE concepts: Monitoring, alerting, and observability; Incident response and root cause analysis; Error budgets, SLAs/SLOs, and system reliability
Preferred
Built tools or services that automate platform operations, reduce toil, or improve cost efficiency
Experience managing large scale systems that runs diverse workloads ranging from RPC services to Data related
Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems under real-world load
Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams
Experience using GenAI based solutions to solve reliability challenges
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.67BKey Investors
Berkshire HathawayMicrosoftSequoia Capital
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
2025-01-16Post Ipo Debt· $0.31M
2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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