Apple · 1 month ago
Apple Services Engineering, Block Storage SRE
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $258K/yr
5+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and services. The Block Storage SRE team is responsible for building and running next-generation distributed storage systems to support Apple's critical services, tackling unique challenges in a large-scale environment.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Tackle problems using deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals
Involve across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management
Join the Block Storage SRE team at Apple and take individual responsibility and influence over the direction of the platform
Shape its use by many critical Apple Cloud services for years to come
Improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity in software delivered as a service
Impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of current and future Apple features
Run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools for system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer or Infrastructure Software Development role
Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment
The ability to design, author, review, and release code in one or more high level language (e.g. Go (preferred), Rust, Python, and/or Java, etc.)
Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)
Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems
Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them with well defined and tested APIs
Awareness of protocols for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management, failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc
Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
Experienced in SRE principles, such as monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common concepts in reliability engineering. Skilled at seeing opportunities to reduce manual work through enhancements in code and processes
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.
10001+ employees
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