Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft 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 Services Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps. We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. We are looking for passionate and talented Site Reliability Engineers to continue our focus on providing our customers the highest quality Apple Services experience. Our services must scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that help millions of customers, this is the place for you!

FoundationDB infrastructure is large scale, operating across multiple geographically dispersed data centers and servicing hundreds of millions of users, presenting unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you will solve these problems using data, teamwork, and your expertise. SREs at Apple own the full infrastructure stack; from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management — our responsibilities are both broad and deep.

FoundationDB runs its systems on Linux. We use a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools for system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and monitoring. You will learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. Our team is collaborative; we work closely with the development teams we support to deliver the best results for Apple. We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

FoundationDB SRE is a small team with huge scale. We serve as the database for much of CloudKit’s use cases, including Mail, Contacts, and Keychain. We serve hundreds of millions of customers every day and are a fundamental piece of the Apple device experience.

Our team is responsible for provisioning, managing, and monitoring FoundationDB in production across multiple regions and control planes (bare-metal, AWS, and Kubernetes). We develop much of our own automation in Java and Go, including our open source Kubernetes Operator. We work closely with our development partners to develop a robust and scalable database, often engaging in projects as a single team.

Experience
- Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration
- Experience managing and scaling distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments
- Ability to design, author, and release code in languages such as Go, Java, or Python
- Acute drive to automate manual operations and improve them through repeated iteration
- Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard networking protocols, and components
- Experience deploying, supporting, and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks
- Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
- In-depth experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer, or equivalent role
- Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Spinnaker
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes

About you
Collaborative team player with a passion for building scalable, reliable systems. You think critically and balance the best technical solutions with practical delivery. You communicate clearly and take ownership of your work to deliver high-quality results.

Qualifications
Relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related fields is essential. Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, or Python and strong Linux system knowledge are required. Experience with cloud environments and container orchestration is highly desirable.