Apple
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Elastic Disk
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years; experience may be in distributed storage systems or other large-scale, stateful systems such as distributed databases.
About the job
Build, operate, and improve Apple Cloud’s distributed Elastic Disk storage platform, with responsibility for project delivery, technical standards, and service availability.
What you'll do
- Own projects or deliverables, design solutions, build support for them, and deliver them against project goals.
- Provide technical feedback to colleagues and help drive technical standards across the team.
- Participate in the on-call rota, including weekends, responding to alerts and critical issues to maintain service availability and functionality.
What they ask for
- Experience building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a cloud environment, or working with other large-scale stateful systems such as distributed databases.
- Ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages such as Go, Java, Python, or Rust.
- Understanding of Linux storage, Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
- Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup and recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
Nice to have
- Drive to automate and iteratively improve manual operations; awareness of storage deployment best practices.
- Experience with configuration management or software delivery platforms; familiarity with Kubernetes, microservices, or relational and non-relational databases.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Java, Python, Rust, Linux, LVM, XFS, ext4
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