Apple
Security Site Reliability Engineer - Apple Service Engineering
$175K–$308K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure focused role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Own and improve the reliability, operational quality, and security posture of identity, token issuance, and access management services, partnering with development teams from design through production and incident response.
What you'll do
- Partner with development teams on service design, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
- Own or co-own SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and on-call for supported services.
- Drive reliability and observability improvements and represent operational health in planning and review forums.
What they ask for
- Strong working experience in at least one of: Golang or Swift.
- Deep experience with distributed, stateful systems at high scale and high availability.
- Strong understanding of networking, storage, and performance at scale; experience running Tier 1 services with 24/7 support expectations.
- Knowledge of securing RESTful and gRPC APIs, including authentication and authorization, and understanding of OAuth and JWT.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, or cryptographic systems; SRE principles; or policy-based authorization engines such as Open Policy Agent or Zanzibar.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Golang, Swift, RESTful, gRPC, OAuth, JWT, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent
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