Apple · 2 months ago
Senior Infrastructure SRE, Object Storage
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$172K/yr - $258K/yrApple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple’s most critical services. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges.
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Responsibilities
The role involves understanding the team's priorities; taking ownership of projects or deliverables; designing solutions and building buy-in for those designs; and successful and timely delivery of those designs. Members of our team are expected to be comfortable giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist them in the delivery of their designs, features and projects, as well as driving technical standards across the distributed team in collaboration with key stakeholders
The team has an on-call rota including the week-ends and the successful candidate should expect to handle alerts and other escalations in order to maintain a high level of availability and functionality for our provided services. The team is divided into two shards in UK and US and cross-timezone meetings are a core feature of how our team collaborates, reaches agreements, and executes to deliver projects
At Apple Cloud, we run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded
Qualification
Required
Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment
The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust
Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)
Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems and experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred
Preferred
Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker)
Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)
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.
Founded in 1976
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$5.67BKey Investors
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CEO
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