Data Services SRE Manager - ASE Databases
Core
Lead the Databases SRE organization in Shanghai, building a new site and managing reliability, scalability, and performance for Apple's internet services database platforms.
Role type
Senior IC engineering manager (data services SRE)
Builds
Data service deployment infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and alerting tooling for Cassandra, Kafka, Solr, Redis/Valkey, and etcd
Domain
Internet services, distributed databases, streaming systems, and coordination services
Required skills
Engineering management, distributed systems, database systems, storage engines, SRE concepts, data structures and algorithms, modern Java, project management
Preferred skills
Control plane services, distributed systems concepts, performance engineering, virtualized and containerized platforms, system-level hardware and networking, datacenter architecture, operating systems concepts
Technologies
Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Redis/Valkey, etcd, Zookeeper, Kubernetes, EC2
Responsibilities
Hire, lead, and grow a team of SREs; Own reliability and performance of mission-critical data platforms; Set technical direction for automation and scaling; Drive incident response and systemic improvements; Establish SRE practices including SLOs and capacity planning; Partner with software engineering and Core Storage teams; Communicate across a geographically distributed organization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
