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Apple

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Apple Maps

$268K–$402K

Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026

Experience
10–15+ years in SRE or adjacent disciplines, with at least 10 years in senior management roles.

About the job

Leads the Apple Maps SRE organization and sets strategy for the serving infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and AI-enabled SRE practices.

What you'll do

  • Set and drive the serving infrastructure roadmap with engineering and product partners.
  • Lead and develop the SRE organization, advancing technical excellence, automation, capacity strategy, and operational practices.
  • Define and execute an AI strategy and promote AI-assisted tools in SRE workflows.

What they ask for

  • 10–15+ years of experience in SRE or adjacent disciplines, including at least 10 years in senior management roles.
  • Experience leading SRE organizations supporting large-scale, user-facing distributed services.
  • Strong proficiency in Linux fundamentals, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience applying AI/ML tooling or LLM-based solutions to SRE or infrastructure operations; ability to evaluate LLM-produced code for production use.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes at scale.
  • Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, infrastructure architecture, or AI-powered operational tooling.

Pay

$267,800 and $401,700 USD base salary

Tools

Linux, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, AI/ML, LLM

AI focus

Define and execute an AI strategy for SRE, using AI/ML and LLM-powered tooling to reduce toil, accelerate root cause analysis, improve reliability, and support operational workflows.

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