Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer - SRE, London

Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer - SRE, London

London, England, United Kingdom

Software and Services

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Systems Engineering (ASE) Infrastructure team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iTunes, iCloud, Siri, and Maps). We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus in providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience.

Description

We build and support new and existing critical infrastructure systems and frameworks which provide and support services like structured and unstructured storage, caching, queueing, searching, and much more at hyperscale. These form the platform upon which many iCloud and other backend systems at Apple are built. The team is responsible for the next generation platform that will power Apple’s infrastructural services. These services operate at extremely large scale and store exabytes of data. The platform will support a variety of services based on open-source software, such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, Redis, etc, alongside internally developed services. We are looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate engineer to join as a member of this group. You 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 who can create API-driven services with extraordinary precision, delightful service features, and resilient services that “just work”. Your engineering will impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features. The successful candidate must have experience in software development, distributed systems, and leadership. They must have experience leading projects or small teams to deliver on time and in fast-changing environments. They must have some experience working across multiple timezones to deliver and launch production-changing projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• Successful track-record and proven experience as a backend internet services software engineer in a high-level language such as Golang (preferred), C++, Java or Python or equivalent.
• Successful track-record and proven experience of leading projects from design to launch, using business needs to determine velocity and scope.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading concepts and design of highly concurrent and distributed applications.
• Understanding of distributed system concepts including: the CAP Theorem, microservices, and self-healing policy enforcement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with development within Kubernetes ecosystem, including operator framework and controllers.
• Some exposure to structured or unstructured storage or caching layers such as Cassandra, Redis, Memcache.
• Experience with UI frameworks such as React, Angular or JQuery.
• Experience with large scale server orchestration (OpenStack Ironic, Metal3, MAAS, xCat, Netbox, Tinkerbell, Cloudstack).
• Some exposure to cloud services (AWS S3/EC2/CloudFront/Steps... or equivalent).