Apple
Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- At least 5 years in SRE or DevOps; 5+ years running services in a large-scale *nix environment. Degree alternatives: BS with 5+ years or MS with 3+ years experience, or equivalent.
- Education
- BS degree in computer science or equivalent field, or MS degree; equivalent also stated.
About the job
Runs and improves large-scale data-processing services and applications for Apple products, focusing on performance, stability, availability, and reliability.
What you'll do
- Support Java applications and Spark/Flink jobs on Baremetal, AWS, and Kubernetes; determine suitable services and topology for application requirements.
- Build automation for self-healing systems and tools to monitor and alert on high-performance, low-latency applications.
- Monitor production and non-production environments and troubleshoot application, network, system, and performance issues.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years in an SRE or DevOps role.
- 5+ years running services in a large-scale *nix environment; prior on-call experience and understanding of SRE principles and goals.
- Extensive experience managing applications on AWS and Kubernetes; deep experience in one or more of Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, or AWS.
- BS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 5+ years, or MS degree with 3+ years experience, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting Java applications.
- Experience with Big Data technologies, geographically distributed teams, or large projects and migrations.
Pay
$142,300 to $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Spark, Flink, Baremetal, AWS, Kubernetes, Hadoop, *nix
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