Site Reliability Engineer, Apple
Object Storage
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Kubernetes
Python
Java
Linux
Go
Postgres
Cassandra
Ansible
Rust
Puppet
Chef
Spinnaker
Mid and Senior level
London
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Personal technology company
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
Kubernetes
Python
Java
Linux
Go
Postgres
Cassandra
Ansible
Rust
Puppet
Chef
Spinnaker
Mid and Senior level
London
More information about location
1001+ employees
B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment
- The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust
- Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS)
- Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems
- Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
- You are solution-oriented and have a passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent employment
- Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration
- Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management. failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc
- Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker)
- Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)
What the job involves
- Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple’s most critical services
- Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges
- As a Storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these problems using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals
- Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management
- We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Object Storage SRE team at Apple
- The role involves tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the platform, shaping its use by many critical Apple Cloud services for years to come
- Your work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features
- The role involves understanding the team's priorities; taking ownership of projects or deliverables; designing solutions and building buy-in for those designs; and successful delivery of those designs in order to meet the project goal
- The role involves giving technical feedback to colleagues to assist them in the delivery of their designs, features and projects, as well as driving technical standards across the two-site team in collaboration with other senior members of the team
- The team has an on-call rota including the week-ends and the successful candidate should expect to handle alerts and other escalations in order to maintain a high level of availability and functionality for our provided services
- The team is divided into two shards in UK and US and cross-timezone meetings are a core feature of how our team collaborates, reaches agreements, and executes to deliver projects
- At Apple Cloud, we run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring
- You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them
- We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded
- The candidate may be expected to travel to other Apple locations from time to time e.g. the USA
- Weekly Hours: 35
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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