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# SRE Software Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BASIC (Programming Language), CentOS, Configuration Management, Computer Networks, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Linux, DevOps, File Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Open Source Technology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Runbook, TCP/IP, Oracle Linux, Scripting, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Bare Metal, Azure AKS, Puppet, Firewall Services Module, Operating System Security, Splunk, Software Version Control, Docker
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/sre-software-engineer

## About the Role

Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure focused experience

Experience with third-party cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management at datacenter scale

Understanding of cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk, or similar)

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Knowledge of OS security hardening, encryption, and regulatory compliance frameworks

Minimum Qualifications

Hands-on experience in Linux systems administration and containerization with enterprise distributions such as RHEL, Oracle Linux, or CentOS

Proficiency in Python or Go for scripting and tooling

Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals: file systems, process management, user and group administration, and package managementWorking knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and basic firewall configuration

Experience with version control systems such as Git and configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent)

Strong written and verbal communication skills

## Description

The ASE Compute team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and manage a large Kubernetes platform that Apple's services run on, partnering with engineering teams across the company to solve complex problems using both open-source and in-house tooling. You will contribute to the development of our controllers and namespace management infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to strengthen the reliability of our Kubernetes services. You will learn to write well-tested code, participate in design reviews, and gradually take ownership of features. You'll have the opportunity to engage with the upstream community, gain hands-on experience with production-scale systems, and build the technical foundation to support service teams across Apple. The role also offers room to build AI-assisted tooling that accelerates triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure automation for the whole team., Deploy, configure, and maintain large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments

Write and maintain operational tooling to improve reliability and reduce manual intervention

Implement and maintain reliability standards for the platform: SLOs, error budgets, alerting philosophy, upgrade and rollout strategy, and the run-books that follow from them.

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, revision control workflows, and configuration management practices

Take on-call, troubleshoot production issues, and follow up on post-incident action items

Help enforce security best practices, OS hardening, and compliance standards across the fleet


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