Apple · 12 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelApple is a leading technology company that strives every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. As a member of the Satellite Connectivity Group, you will work on the satellite network that enables connectivity to iPhone and Watch Ultra when off the grid without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage, contributing to distributed systems and cloud infrastructure for critical customer-facing services.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BroadcastingDigital EntertainmentFoundational AIMedia and EntertainmentMobile DevicesOperating SystemsTVWearables
Responsibilities
Build, monitor, and maintain large scale, highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite
Contribute to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services
Build and run an Apple service enabling platform that millions of customers may rely on every day
Build and run the infrastructure that powers those services with emphasis on build, not just operate or implement
Solve problems using software rather than shell prompts as we scale Apple’s services for customers around the world
Qualification
Required
Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability
Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)
Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services
Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms
Understanding of zero-trust application architecture
Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc
Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure
Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)
Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, VIPs, load balancers, proxies
Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required
Infrastructure As Code (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)
Preferred
Experience with AWS and/or GCP
Experience with OLAP databases (ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc.)
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirements
Able to write software tools & services needed to build and operate a large scale platform
Proficient with Puppet
Experience with IP network design and architecture; Cisco, Juniper, or Arista routing and switching hardware & configuration
Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies
Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
Education: Technical engineering BS is a positive but not required
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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