Apple
Site Reliability Engineer, AiDP Production Engineering
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in each of the listed areas: cloud-native services and ETL frameworks; messaging systems and cloud infrastructure; distributed databases; programming.
- Education
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs, operates, and improves reliable data infrastructure and production services across bare-metal, AWS, and Kubernetes environments for Apple’s analytics platforms.
What you'll do
- Configure and tune multi-tier systems; build automation, monitoring, and alerting to improve resilience and performance.
- Troubleshoot production issues, triage incidents, implement mitigations, and conduct root cause analysis with engineering teams.
- Support Java applications and Spark/Flink jobs, including participation in an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience with cloud-native services, including ETL frameworks such as Apache Spark and Flink.
- 4+ years of experience with messaging systems (Kafka) and cloud infrastructure and services, including AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes.
- 4+ years of experience with distributed databases, including Snowflake, Cassandra, SingleStore, and SAP HANA.
- 4+ years of programming experience in Python or Java.
Nice to have
- Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch.
- Experience using GenAI or automation tools for issue detection, alerting, or remediation.
Tools
Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, Java
AI focus
The role supports AI-centric platform automation; preferred experience includes using GenAI or automation tools for issue detection, alerting, or remediation.
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