Apple
ASE Compute - Lead SRE Software Engineer
$185K–$325K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture, reliability, and operation of Kubernetes controllers and namespace-management infrastructure powering Apple services at global scale.
What you'll do
- Set platform architecture and reliability standards, and operate the infrastructure in production.
- Lead incident response, resolve systemic reliability issues, and automate operational work.
- Represent Apple in the upstream Kubernetes community and guide engineers and partner teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
- 8+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused role.
- Deep production experience with large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes; strong full-stack systems troubleshooting skills.
- Expert-level Go and experience shipping and owning controllers or operators; configuration management at scale; ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; familiarity with bare-metal provisioning at datacenter scale.
- Cloud-native observability experience, or experience operating infrastructure as an internal managed service with defined SLAs.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $324,800 base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Puppet, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Azure, Prometheus
AI focus
Build AI-assisted tooling to accelerate triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure automation.
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