Senior Data Services SRE - ASE Databases
Core
Build, operate, and maintain distributed data service platforms (Cassandra, Kafka, Solr, Redis/Valkey, etcd, ZooKeeper) at massive scale for Apple's internet services.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Distributed Systems & Databases)
Builds
Data service deployment infrastructure, automation, monitoring tooling, and open-source contributions
Domain
Internet services, distributed systems, database technologies
Required skills
distributed systems fundamentals, database systems expertise, SRE concepts, modern Java/Go/Python, operating systems concepts
Preferred skills
performance engineering, Kubernetes management, Terraform, datacenter architecture, open source contributions
Technologies
Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Redis/Valkey, etcd, Apache ZooKeeper, Kubernetes, EC2, EBS, Terraform
Responsibilities
Own reliability and performance of data service platforms; design and operate control plane and automation; diagnose and resolve production problems across full stack; 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 open source projects; collaborate on shared tooling and support internal customers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
