
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Services
Sunnyvale, CAJobSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will support Apple’s Backbone Network within the Core Services team, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance across hardware, software, and configuration and monitoring tools. The role applies DevOps practices in Apple’s global networking infrastructure, which supports services used by billions of customers. The team builds software-defined cloud network infrastructure for Apple Cloud.
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Full job description
Role Number: 200684847-3956
Summary
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.” Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.
The Apple Networking team builds software-defined cloud network infrastructure as a part of Apple Cloud. Our infrastructure is a critical foundation in delivering Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Maps) to billions of customers. We are a fast-paced organization where drive and collaboration are the keys to success. Teams across Apple rely critically on us for infrastructure that helps them build services that scale globally, are highly available, and “just work”.
Description
As a Site Reliability Engineer in the Core Services team, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Apple’s Backbone Network including hardware, software, and our toolset used to configure/monitor the environment while adhering to DevOps best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
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3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering, or a related field.
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Proficiency in scripting and programming (Python, Bash, Go, Java, or similar).
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Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.).
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Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
Preferred Qualifications
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Proficient in Linux, Networking concepts (TLS/SSL, DNS, Load Balancers, etc.), and troubleshooting skills in large-scale environments.
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Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
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Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Teamcenter environments using tools such as Deployment Center, Jenkins, or similar.
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Hands-on experience in one or more databases (Relational / NoSQL like Oracle, MongoDB).
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Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
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Experience with security and authentication (OAuth, SAML, SSO).
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Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent years of work experience.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,401 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$165–244K/yr388 salary ranges
- US median$42–67/hr86 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 463 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs in California and 2,401 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- SpaceX57 open
- Apple (this employer)22 open
- Palo Alto Networks21 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Site Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,051 postings).
- Education
- 735 of the 2,401 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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