People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience
that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people
and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could
do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The
Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and
infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and
Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the
products that our customers love. We are looking for passionate and talented
Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus in providing our customers the
highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services have to scale globally,
stay highly available, and "just work.” If you love designing, engineering and
running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then
this is the place for you!
DESCRIPTION
FoundationDB infrastructure is BIG. Operating at our scale, across multiple
geographically dispersed data centers and servicing hundreds of millions of
users presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these
problems using data, teamwork, and your own expertise. SREs at Apple own the
full infrastructure stack; from device driver performance debugging to content
delivery network traffic management — our responsibilities are both broad and
deep. FoundationDB runs its systems on Linux. We run a mix of open source,
vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as
system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and
monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. Our
team is collaborative; we work closely with the development teams we support to
deliver the best results for Apple. We think critically and strive to balance
the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering
challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded. FoundationDB
SRE is a small team with huge scale. We serve as the database for much of
CloudKit's use cases, including Mail, Contacts, and Keychain. We serve hundreds
of millions of customers every day and are a fundamental piece of the Apple
device experience.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication
and collaboration Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a
public, private, or hybrid cloud environment The ability to design, author, and
release code in languages like (but not limited to) Go, Java or Python Acute
drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated
iteration Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard networking
protocols, and components Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse
systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as
Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker) Experience with deploying, supporting and
monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills Experience with scale
testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning Familiarity with microservices
architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration
management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and
Spinnaker) Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing
services, platforms, and application stacks Excellent troubleshooting and
problem solving skills Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and
capacity planning Familiarity with microservices architecture and container
orchestration with Kubernetes
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