Apple
Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Ads
$150K–$225K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure.
About the job
Provides the platform and operational reliability for mission-critical Apple Ads systems, improving their uptime, scalability, security, and stability.
What you'll do
- Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services, and develop tooling and automation to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and operational visibility.
- Design and maintain resilient infrastructure using Terraform, GitOps workflows, and Kubernetes-native control planes.
- Collaborate on architecture and troubleshooting, and participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
What they ask for
- 3+ years supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java; proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure.
- Hands-on Linux experience and deep knowledge of Linux internals.
- Demonstrated Infrastructure as Code experience, especially Terraform, and a strong foundation in SRE concepts.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, building, or integrating AI/LLM-powered tooling and automations.
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production.
Pay
$150,400 and $225,300 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, EKS, MSK, ElastiCache, Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, Helm
AI focus
Preferred experience designing, building, or integrating AI/LLM-powered tooling and automations.
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