Apple · 1 month ago
Technical Lead, Storage
Cupertino, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$212K/yr - $386K/yr
15+ years expApple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to phenomenal work. As a storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve unique challenges using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals.
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Responsibilities
Architectural and Technical leadership for operating large scale distributed storage systems
Identify innovative approaches to solve problems in distributed systems, strategize ideas, and take them to completion
Work across team boundaries to drive best practices in resiliency for distributed storage services
Establish & enhance Site Reliability Engineering practices across teams
Design, Develop, review, and release code in one or more of Go, Rust, Java, and Python
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 15 years of experience in Storage Software & Infrastructure Software Development role
Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment
Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in the industry (such as XFS, ext4, S3, EBS, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)
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
Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them with well defined and tested APIs
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
Preferred
Awareness of best practices 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 identifying opportunities to reduce manual work through improvements 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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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.67BKey Investors
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
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2021-04-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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