Apple · 6 hours ago
Traffic and Secure Services Network SRE Engineer
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$140K/yr - $258K/yr
3+ years expApple is a company that builds systems powering services used by millions globally, and they are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for their Seattle team. The role focuses on traffic management, load balancing, and secure networking infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance of their services.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate highly available infrastructure systems for traffic routing, load balancing, and secure connectivity at global scale
Collaborate with development teams to influence architecture, improve observability, and embed SRE best practices across the SDLC
Respond to incidents when needed (on-call rotation), but spend most of your time preventing them through proactive engineering, monitoring, and system improvements
Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in secure, high-performance networking
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement: write clear documentation, conduct blameless postmortems, and help define SLOs that align with business impact
Help mentor teammates and share knowledge across a growing international SRE community
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience in traffic management, networking infrastructure, or distributed systems
3+ years of software engineering or reliability engineering experience
Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering disciplines
Preferred
Are proficient in at least one modern programming or scripting language (e.g., Golang, Rust, Python, Java, bash) and have a track record of shipping production-grade tooling or services
Understand the internals of load balancing, TLS, and secure network communications, especially in large-scale environments
Thrive in dynamic situations: whether responding to critical incidents or designing long-term solutions, you know when to act and when to align
Believe automation is a first-class responsibility, not an afterthought. Past work might include automating deployments, alert triage, certificate rotation, or self-service workflows
Communicate clearly and work effectively across time zones and disciplines. You'll engage regularly with teams in North America, requiring thoughtful planning around collaboration rhythms
Are passionate about operational excellence and continuously setting the standard for reliability, performance, and security
Experience with cloud-native proxies or service mesh technologies
Hands-on involvement with DevOps culture, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
Proven success delivering robust, diagnosable systems in 24x7 customer-facing environments
A mindset of lifelong learning and sharing, contributing diverse perspectives to technical discussions and team growth
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
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10001+ employees
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