Senior Data Services SRE - ASE Databases
Core
Senior SRE engineer responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of Apple's distributed data service platforms (Cassandra, Kafka, Solr, Redis/Valkey, etcd, ZooKeeper) serving millions of queries per second.
Role type
Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (Distributed Systems & Databases)
Builds
Control plane, automation, monitoring tooling, and deployment infrastructure for massive-scale data services
Domain
Internet services, distributed systems, database technologies
Required skills
Distributed systems fundamentals, database systems expertise, SRE concepts (monitoring/alerting/incident management), modern Java/Go/Python, operating system concepts
Preferred skills
Performance engineering, Kubernetes management, Terraform, multi-datacenter architecture, open source contributions
Technologies
Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Redis/Valkey, etcd, Apache ZooKeeper, Kubernetes, EC2, EBS, Terraform, Java, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Own reliability and performance of data service platforms; design and operate control plane and automation; diagnose and resolve full-stack production problems; participate in on-call and incident response; build monitoring and alerting dashboards; lead capacity planning and performance analysis; execute safe large-scale changes and migrations; contribute patches to upstream open source projects; collaborate on shared tooling and partner with other teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
