Service Reliability Engineer - Applications Support

The Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) role in Apple Services Engineering requires a mix of strategic engineering and design along with hands-on, technical work. This SRE will configure, tune, and fix multi-tiered systems to achieve optimal application performance, stability and availability. We manage jobs as well as applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing for many of Apple’s global products. Our teams work with exabytes of data, petabytes of memory, and tens of thousands of jobs to enable predicable and performant data analytics enabling features in Apple Music, TV+, Appstore and other world class products. If you love designing, running systems that will impact millions of users, then this is the place for you! Minimum Qualifications 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role for Java based applications 3+ years of running distributed services in a large-scale Linux/Unix environment Understanding of SRE principles and goals, along with prior on-call experience Strong programming skills in Python Extensive experience with supporting and debugging Java-based applications preferrably in AWS or GCP and Kubernetes environments Preferred Qualifications Masters/ Bachelors degree in Computer science or equivalent field. Deep understanding and experience in one or more of the Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark or Flink. Fast learner with excellent analytical problem-solving and interpersonal skills Experience working with geographically distributed teams and implementing high-level projects and migrations Strong communication skills and ability to deliver results on time with high quality