Job Details

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

San Diego, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jun 01, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200607283

Apple is looking for a Senior Engineer with systems and software engineering experience to join our Satellite Communications 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.

Description

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 that encourages creativity, collaboration, and rethinking 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 when off the grid without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage.
Every day, Apple customers use Emergency SOS via satellite to access emergency assistance when they are in need of help and 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. 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 distributed systems principles, including consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.

• Strong familiarity with consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos, Zab, etc)

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

• Experience with Temporal/Cadence/Windmill or other durable execution platforms

• Understanding of zero-trust application architecture

• Proven experience building and optimizing real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, etc. Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration

• Experience with IoT/Edge device compute and infrastructure Experience or interest in RF, Cellular, Satellite communications (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, LTE/5G)

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

• Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus

• Education: Engineering or technical BS is a positive but not required

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 Puppet.

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

• Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration

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

• Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus

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

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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