Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Apple · Singapore
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The role involves building and operating scalable DevOps platforms and container orchestration systems to support critical business integrations. You will lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements across distributed production environments.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles with strong proficiency in programming languages like Python and Java. A deep understanding of Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and database management is required to support large-scale, internet-facing production services.
Full description
Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.
Apple's B2B team manages critical integrations with Apple's supply chain partners such as manufacturers, logistics providers, banks, resellers and business customers. We are seeking a technically hands on individual with a real passion for programming and automation.
Description
Join our dynamic team as a Software Reliability Engineer (SRE) and dive into innovative work culture fueled by machine learning, anomaly detection and threat detection. Collaborate with a highly motivated team of professionals who push boundaries and delivering exceptional results.
This position offers an exciting opportunity to build your career as an SRE in a supportive environment, where continuous learning and professional development are prioritized.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum 5 years of prior demonstrated experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps(Must), or an Infrastructure-focused role. Designing and Building DevOps platforms end-to-end alongwith SRE/Platform Engineering. Proven experience in building DevOps platforms from scratch. Applied Experience on GitOps-based deployment models (ArgoCD / Flux) Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. Build and operate Kubernetes platforms (EKS / AKS / GKE / OpenShift) Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems Strong problem-solving and architectural skills Proficiency in one or more programming languages (eg. Python) Support of internet-facing production services and distributed systems via deployments, onCall and Incident Management. Lead incident response, RCA, and reliability improvements. Proficiency in implementing and coordinating telemetry using monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus, or similar. Experience in solving and resolving issues in Kubernetes from both an operating system and application perspective. Building and operating container orchestrating systems like Kubernetes or EKS. Strong programming experience in Java building web, middleware or backend applications. Deep understanding of Oracle or similar relational databases and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. Firsthand experience in performance tuning of applications and databases. Knowledge of HTTP/S, TCP, DNS, web application load balancing. Deep understanding of basic security concepts and protocols - authentication, authorization, signing, encryption, SSL/TLS, SSH/SFTP, PKI, X509 certificates and PGP.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong programming experience in Java for backend, middleware, or web applications Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.) Deep understanding of relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) Hands-on experience in performance tuning of applications and databases Experience with advanced observability practices: -- Distributed tracing -- SLO/SLI design -- Error budgets Prior experience in large-scale, highly distributed production environments Experience with container orchestration internals (scheduler, CNI, CSI, etc.) Knowledge of middleware platforms such as WebMethods Integration Server or similar. Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, etc.)
