Senior Infrastructure SRE, Object Storage

Summary

Apple Cloud infrastructure is BIG. The storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple’s most critical services. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with vast data need presents unique challenges. As a Storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these problems using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals. Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management.

Description

We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Object Storage SRE team at Apple. You are solution-oriented and have a passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your 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

Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment The ability to design, author, understand, and release code in languages like Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Rust. Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS) Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems and experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. Advanced Degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Spinnaker) Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)