Data Platform Infra Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc.
London, UK
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Unix Data Infrastructure Data Migration Software Debugging Disaster Recovery Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Networking Basics Reliability Engineering Database Engines HybridCloud Production Code

Requirements

  • Experience in managing and scaling large-scale distributed systems in a private or hybrid cloud environment.
  • Comfortable designing, writing, and releasing production code in languages such as Go or Python.
  • Able to debug and reason about how distributed systems fail and perform at scale.
  • Willingness to take part in on-call rotations and incident response to keep critical systems healthy., * Contributions to distributed-systems internals, open-source data infrastructure, or storage/database engines.
  • Experience defining SLIs/SLOs, building observability, and using error budgets to drive reliability decisions.
  • A good grasp of Unix internals and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience with data migration, disaster recovery, or capacity planning at scale.

About the company

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organisation builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services - iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. Our team builds and operates the data platform infrastructure behind them, keeping petabyte-scale workloads fast, resilient, and reliable.The platform runs on large-scale distributed systems, including object stores, databases, and data pipelines, on Linux across private and hybrid cloud. You’ll work on storage engines, distributed consensus, and data-flow internals, partnering with development teams on system-wide architecture rather than individual components., At Apple, we’re not all the same. And that’s our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law. Learn more

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here - in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on www.totaljobs.com

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:34 min

Pivoting careers into specialized platform engineering roles

Xavier Portilla Edo · LIVE

3:18 min

Executing background data migrations using AzCopy

Radu Vunvulea Radu Vunvulea · WWC 2022

2:03 min

Microsoft integrating native Unix coreutils into Windows environments

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

1:44 min

Career transition into cloud native and data management

Michael Cade · LIVE

1:11 min

Executing complex backend data migrations with pre-analysis logic

Alex Laubscher Alex Laubscher · WWC 2025

2:04 min

Defining timestamps and the international standard format

Denny Biasiolli Denny Biasiolli · Europe 2026 Virtual

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all