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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Shell Script, Software Engineering, Datadog, Scripting, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Golang
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/site-reliability-engineer-ase-91a0b1

## About the Role

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Experience with observability tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning at scale

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines

Proven track record of driving automation to reduce operational toil in high-traffic production environments

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

3+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

2+ years of experience leading technical projects and providing engineering leadership

Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or shell scripting)

## Description

As an SRE, your mission is to ensure these services are always available, performant, and ready for growth. You will solve complex problems at scale, develop deep troubleshooting expertise, and keep a relentless focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity. You will drive a culture of operational excellence by replacing toil with automation and by building systems that are resilient by design., Own the full service lifecycle from inception and architecture through deployment, operations, and continuous improvement

Partner with cross-functional teams to prepare services for production through system design consulting, deployment strategy, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews

Monitor, measure, and maintain service health across availability, latency, and performance dimensions

Drive sustainable scalability through automation and tooling, reducing manual operational overhead

Participate in on-call rotations, lead production incident response, and contribute to blameless postmortems

Establish and champion operational excellence practices across the organization

Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Program Management, Security, and Infrastructure teams to embed reliability throughout the software development lifecycle


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