Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Storage - Apple Services Engineering

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Mar 17, 2025 Role Number: 200586559 People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionised entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas encourage innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple! Are you a talented Site Reliability Engineering Manager with a passion for distributed storage systems? Ready to be part of a focused and lively team bringing distributed storage technologies to Apple's infrastructure? At Apple, scale is huge and impact is enormous. Join our team and be part of our mission, which is to power storage behind many of Apple's most popular services. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no limit to what you can achieve.

Description

Description The Storage SRE organization is seeking a strong engineering leader to manage Storage focused SRE teams, working closely with peer SRE teams and development partners. You'll help build and optimize the Storage stack from the bare metal to the top of the application, helping design provisioning systems, code deployment, monitoring, alerting, and performance improvements. Together with the team, you'll help run the storage used by some of Apple's largest teams.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a leadership role within an SRE or DevOps team, specifically passionate about distributed storage.
• Strong background in distributed systems, storage architectures, and data management.
• Deep knowledge of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts
• Lead initiatives to enhance the scalability and performance of distributed storage systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement robust and scalable storage solutions.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization
• Proficient in at least one of these programming languages: Golang, Java or Rust
• Knowledge of distributed storage (block storage), or similar large scale distributed databases
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements in storage systems.
• Understanding of data durability, consistency models, and storage performance optimization techniques.

Education & Experience

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements More