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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Apple

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Compensation
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Location
Austin, TX
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Apple’s Satellite Connectivity Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate resilient systems and cloud infrastructure for satellite communications services. The role focuses on distributed systems, architecture, infrastructure as code, and supporting components such as provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software tools. The team emphasizes building software-driven platforms that support customer-facing services used around the world.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Observability, requiredMonitoring and Alerting Platforms, requiredPrometheus, requiredSplunk, requiredGrafana, requiredAlertmanager, requiredMulti-Cluster Services, requiredHighly Available Services, requiredData Processing Pipelines, requiredKafka, requiredSpark, requiredFlink, requiredBeam, requiredKubernetes, requiredWeb-Scale Services, requiredServers, requiredVIPs, requiredLoad Balancers, requiredProxies, requiredLinux Internals, requiredCI/CD, requiredGitOps, requiredInfrastructure as Code, requiredPulumi, requiredTerraform, requiredLarge-Scale Platform Tools, nice to haveConfiguration Management, nice to havePuppet, nice to haveAnsible, nice to haveSalt, nice to haveZero-Trust Architecture, nice to haveIP Network Design, nice to haveNetwork Architecture, nice to haveCisco Routing and Switching, nice to haveJuniper Routing and Switching, nice to haveArista Routing and Switching, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveGCP, nice to haveOLAP Databases, nice to haveClickHouse, nice to have

Qualifications

Technical Engineering BS, nice to have

Full job description

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200694182-0157

Summary

At Apple, we strive every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Our successes are the result of skilled domain experts working in an environment which encourages creativity, collaboration, and re-thinking of old problems in new ways! As a member of the Satellite Connectivity Group, you will work on the satellite network that enables connectivity to iPhone and Watch Ultra when off the grid without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. Every day, Apple customers use Emergency SOS, Roadside assistance, and Messages via satellite to stay connected when they have no other means to communicate. You will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape this and other critical services, to the benefit and safety of millions of Apple device users.

Description

Apple is looking for a Senior Engineer with systems and software engineering experience to join our Satellite Connectivity Group SRE team.

The SRE team builds, monitors, and maintains large scale, highly resilient systems that enable our customers to access communications services via satellite.

You'll be contributing to distributed systems, architecture design, and cloud infrastructure (as code!) for critical and unique customer-facing Apple services.

This is a rare opportunity to build and control the entire end to end infrastructure, along with all supporting components such as provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and software tools platforms, from the beginning within a team with a no-ops culture.

You will build and run an Apple service enabling platform that millions of customers may rely on every day.

You’ll also build and run the infrastructure that powers those services with emphasis on build, not just operate or implement.

We’re looking for people who like to solve problems using software rather than shell prompts as we scale Apple’s services for customers around the world.

Help us build the Apple experience on a global scale!

Minimum Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of observability

  • Strong familiarity with different monitoring and alerting platforms like prometheus, splunk, grafana, alertmanager.

  • Experience building and operating multi-clustered and highly-available services

  • Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc.

  • Core Kubernetes concepts

  • Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, VIPs, load balancers, proxies

  • Strong understanding of Linux internals

  • Experience with CI/CD systems

  • Experience with GitOps workflows

  • Infrastructure As Code (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirements

  • Able to write software tools & services needed to build and operate a large scale platform

  • Proficient with Configuration Management systems (Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc)

  • Understanding of zero-trust application architecture

  • Experience with IP network design and architecture; Cisco, Juniper, or Arista routing and switching hardware & configuration

  • Experience with AWS and/or GCP

  • Experience with OLAP databases (ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc.)

  • Experience with OpenTelemetry

  • Education: Technical engineering BS is a positive but not required.

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 2,408 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$126–211K/yr86 salary ranges
  • US median$42–67/hr78 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 156 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Texas and 2,408 across the US. 19% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (1,977 postings).
Education
580 of the 2,408 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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