What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, ASE position at Apple?
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work on some of the world's most impactful internet services including the AppStore, Music, Books, Podcasts, and Fitness within Apple Services Engineering. These are revenue-critical, globally scaled services used by billions of devices worldwide.
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.
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)
Preferred Qualifications:
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