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We are a team of software engineers developing web-based tools and native applications for Apple teams. Our work empowers Apple engineers and researchers to build the products that inspire and delight millions every day.
We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who thinks like a systems engineer first and an operator second. You won't just keep things running - you'll shape how our platform evolves. Our team operates 50+ services across Kubernetes and AWS, handles sensitive health and research data, and is ramping up many architectural shifts: new service-to-service auth patterns, event-driven pipelines, and a move from on-prem to cloud-native infrastructure. We need someone who gets excited about that kind of work, can reason about distributed systems at the design level, and is a strong enough communicator to bring the rest of the team along.
Description
The Human Engineering Software team builds tools used across Apple for user studies, research participant management, health data collection, and privacy-preserving analytics. Our infrastructure spans Django backends, Kubernetes clusters (self-hosted and AWS), PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch and a growing set of internal service integrations.
This role is engineering-forward SRE. You'll spend as much time designing systems as operating them. You'll work closely with our full-stack engineers to improve how services communicate, how we observe production behavior, and how we ship changes safely. You'll have a seat at the architecture table - we want you proposing solutions, not just implementing them.
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 3+ years of experience in distributed systems
Deep experience with Kubernetes in production - cluster operations, networking, storage, troubleshooting
Strong proficiency designing and operating services in AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC)
Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Helm, or equivalent)
Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or similar) - you can write production services, not just scripts
Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and GitOps workflows
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS, firewall rules, service discovery
Excellent communication skills. You can explain a complex system to a room of engineers who didn't build it
Experience building internal automation or self-service tooling (Slack bots, CLI tools, workflow orchestration) that reduced manual operational work
Preferred Qualifications
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 5+ years of experience in distributed systems
Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems)
Experience with service mesh or API gateway patterns (Istio, Envoy, Kong, or similar)
Familiarity with Django/Python web applications and their operational characteristics (Celery, Gunicorn, PostgreSQL)
Experience with observability tooling beyond basic monitoring: distributed tracing, SLO frameworks, structured logging
Background working with sensitive data (health data, PII) and associated compliance requirements
Experience leading incident response and building on-call culture
Contributions to internal or open-source infrastructure tooling
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 90733111
- Position Id: 14d42194988f95cca8a2b06d5c334156
- Posted 30+ days ago
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