Overview
Full Time
Skills
Customer Experience
MLS
PASS
Privacy
Advertising
ADS
Scalability
Ad Serving
FOCUS
Managed Services
Collaboration
Infrastructure Architecture
Continuous Improvement
DevOps
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Internet
IaaS
Python
Java
Linux
Terraform
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis
Budget
Reliability Engineering
Management
Kubernetes
Communication
Amazon Web Services
Job Details
At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers' experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they're looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses. Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Description As an SRE in Apple Ads, you will own the health, performance, and scalability of ad-serving infrastructure and associated platform tooling. Your focus will be on building automation that eliminates manual processes, improves service resilience, and enables teams to move faster with confidence. The person in this role will: * Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services such as EKS, MSK, and ElastiCache. * Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility. * Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence. * Design and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments. * Lead or participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce future risk. This is not a DevOps-only or CI/CD-focused role. We are looking for engineers who build platform solutions, not just configure pipelines.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .
Description As an SRE in Apple Ads, you will own the health, performance, and scalability of ad-serving infrastructure and associated platform tooling. Your focus will be on building automation that eliminates manual processes, improves service resilience, and enables teams to move faster with confidence. The person in this role will: * Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services such as EKS, MSK, and ElastiCache. * Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility. * Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence. * Design and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments. * Lead or participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce future risk. This is not a DevOps-only or CI/CD-focused role. We are looking for engineers who build platform solutions, not just configure pipelines.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java.
- Proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure, especially:
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep knowledge of its internals.
- Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Strong foundation in SRE concepts: Monitoring, alerting, and observability, incident response and root cause analysis, error budgets, SLAs/SLOs, and system reliability
Preferred Qualifications
- Built tools or services that automate platform operations, reduce toil, or improve cost efficiency.
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production environments.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems under real-world load.
- Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.
- AWS certifications or broad experience across multiple AWS services is a plus.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .
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