Summary

Posted: Jun 13, 2019

Role Number: 200067843

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple Media Products SRE team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help take care of our high-performance low latency transaction processing platform. Our SRE team combines software and systems engineering and system administration practices to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Be part of a team working on challenging and fast-paced projects and in addition work closely with the development teams to aid in the architectural design and assist with the implementation of complex new features

Key Qualifications

• Support and maintain services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
• Develop, manage and support SRE tools and applications
• Engage in improving the whole lifecycle of services from inception through deployment, operations, and refinement
• Analyze logs and telemetry data by writing monitoring and automation code
• Provide OnCall support to 1st level production support teams
• Provide hands-on technical expertise during service impacting events
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements

Driven approach to continually improving service levels.

Consistent track record of troubleshooting and resolving issues in live production environments and implementing strategies to eliminate them

Proficient coding experience using Python, Java, bash or similar languages.

Ability to effectively use a relational database and SQL queries

Strong grasp of Linux systems, networking, and security

Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Nagios

PREFERRED
Comfortable working with large-scale server deployments

Knowledge of additional programming languages and platforms: JavaScript, Oracle PL/SQL, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop

Strong ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies in a short time

We seek a self starter, visionary person with strong leadership capabilities

Extraordinary communication skills, for collaborating across many participating teams

You will interact with many other group's internal team to lead and deliver best-in-class products in an exciting fast-paced environment.

Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. Will you join us in crafting solutions that do not yet exist?

Education & Experience

BS degree in computer science or equivalent field with 5+ years or MS degree with 3+ years experience, or equivalent.