Apple
Software Engineer, Platform Reliability Engineering, AiDP
$185K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering; no minimum years specified.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Designs, operates, and improves distributed infrastructure for Apple’s GenAI, machine learning, and big data platforms.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain scalable multi-tenant systems and own infrastructure projects from design through optimization.
- Operate mission-critical services, respond to production incidents, and improve reliability and performance.
- Establish observability practices and collaborate across teams to deliver platform improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Python, Go, Java, or similar).
- Strong expertise in distributed systems architecture, including reliability, scalability, and containerization principles.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and data processing infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, Ray, or Trino.
Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering managing distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with big data technologies or ML/AI platforms, such as Spark, Flink, Iceberg, Ray, MLflow, or model serving infrastructure.
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 (base salary range)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, Ray, Trino
AI focus
Build and operate infrastructure for GenAI, machine learning, inference, and big data workloads.
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