Site Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc.; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology leader is seeking a Software Reliability Engineer in Ireland to enhance critical internet service platforms. The successful candidate will engage in fleet management, develop automations, and improve system reliability, impacting millions of users. Strong knowledge in SRE practices and proficiency in programming languages are essential. Candidates must have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with experience in large-scale systems and configurations.

Qualifications

• Strong emphasis on SRE and backend development.
• Experience in large scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of server virtualization and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Build automation tools and respond to incidents.
• Improve reliability and efficiency of systems.
• Lead initiatives for core platform development.

Skills

Proficiency in Golang, Rust, Python, or Swift

SRE principles knowledge

Continuous integration and testing methodologies

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Software and Services

Description

The Apple Services Engineering Cloud Services SRE organization are domain experts in fleet management, systems, and software engineering. We build automations, instrument reliability tools, and respond to alerts and incidents which may pose a risk to the reliability of the platform. The team’s focus is on infrastructure capabilities and processes, improving the reliability and efficiency of the systems, at scale. We are looking for a strong, enthusiastic developer to join as a member of this group.This person will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the core platform of many critical Apple internet services takes for years to come. You are someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineer’s 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong emphasis on SRE as an engineering subject area, with proficiency in at least in one of the following languages (Golang, Rust, Python, Swift)
• Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software developer
• Knowledge of SDLC, including continuous integration, testing methodologies, TDD and agile development methodologies
• Understanding of base internet infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, LDAP, server virtualization, server monitoring in critical, large scale distributed systems experience, combining Hardware, Operating Systems and Software
• Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts, with a keen eye for opportunities to eliminate toil by code and process improvements.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working with large bare-metal infrastructure and release management.
• Experience with large scale server provisioning, fleet management and maintenance
• Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework, controllers and CRDs
• Hardware bootstrap and associated security (PXE, BIOS, TPM, secure boot, trusted computing)
• Automating operations processes via services and tools
• Configuration management and fleet orchestration via Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or others