Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering
Apple
- Location
- Onsite (Austin, Texas)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
Posted 2 weeks ago
About the role
Join Apple’s Retail and Marcom Engineering team to build and operate the systems connecting products with customers. You will ensure system reliability, automate infrastructure, and support global scale for online and physical store technologies.
Skills
Site Reliability Engineering
Linux
Kubernetes
AWS
GCP
Python
Go
Infrastructure as Code
Git
Jenkins
Vagrant
Puppet
Ansible
Networking
System Administration
Storage Platforms
Full job details
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless. Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.
As a Site Reliability Engineer your primary responsibilities include ensuring system reliability and availability. This involves monitoring performance, participating in on-call rotations, and helping to design highly available systems. You also automate and manage infrastructure, implementing Infrastructure as Code. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, documenting systems, and planning for capacity and scalability are crucial.
3 years hands-on experience as a systems, storage or cloud engineer Knowledge of Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) utilities and programs Expertise in version control systems (Git, SVN), automated build and testing (Jenkins, Vagrant) Expertise in Kubernetes platform, on-premise or Cloud Expertise with at least one cloud infrastructure platform (AWS, GCP) Understanding of enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, Isilon, Object Storage, etc.) Experience with configuration management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible) Understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, KVM) Experience automating workflows with Python or Go Knowledge of networking technologies including IPv4/IPv6, DNS, network segmentation, etc.
5+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE role including technical ownership of production systems at scale Background supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms Excellent verbal and written communication skills — able to articulate, document and otherwise communicate technical concepts/details to both technical and non-technical audiences Working knowledge of basic web technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS etc. and hands on experience debugging web applications at the network/protocol level Experience with GitOps infrastructure automation Experience with multi-platform cloud and on-premise applications at scale, particularly with AWS and/or Alicloud Experience building web applications and services at scale in Go Experience performance-tuning web applications, especially across all contributing factors
Description
As a Site Reliability Engineer your primary responsibilities include ensuring system reliability and availability. This involves monitoring performance, participating in on-call rotations, and helping to design highly available systems. You also automate and manage infrastructure, implementing Infrastructure as Code. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, documenting systems, and planning for capacity and scalability are crucial.
Minimum Qualifications
3 years hands-on experience as a systems, storage or cloud engineer Knowledge of Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) utilities and programs Expertise in version control systems (Git, SVN), automated build and testing (Jenkins, Vagrant) Expertise in Kubernetes platform, on-premise or Cloud Expertise with at least one cloud infrastructure platform (AWS, GCP) Understanding of enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, Isilon, Object Storage, etc.) Experience with configuration management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible) Understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, KVM) Experience automating workflows with Python or Go Knowledge of networking technologies including IPv4/IPv6, DNS, network segmentation, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE role including technical ownership of production systems at scale Background supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms Excellent verbal and written communication skills — able to articulate, document and otherwise communicate technical concepts/details to both technical and non-technical audiences Working knowledge of basic web technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS etc. and hands on experience debugging web applications at the network/protocol level Experience with GitOps infrastructure automation Experience with multi-platform cloud and on-premise applications at scale, particularly with AWS and/or Alicloud Experience building web applications and services at scale in Go Experience performance-tuning web applications, especially across all contributing factors