ASE Compute - Lead SRE Software Engineer
Core
Lead SRE software engineer owning technical direction of Kubernetes internals, controllers, and namespace management infrastructure for Apple's global services.
Role type
Senior IC SRE (Kubernetes internals)
Builds
Controllers, namespace management infrastructure, and AI-assisted operational tooling
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering
Required skills
Kubernetes internals, Go (expert), system architecture, incident response, mentoring, cross-functional leadership
Preferred skills
Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), bare-metal provisioning, cloud-native observability (Prometheus/Thanos/Splunk), internal managed service operations
Technologies
Kubernetes, Go, Puppet, Ansible, Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk
Responsibilities
Define architecture and technical direction for Kubernetes controllers and namespace management; resolve reliability issues beyond upstream defaults; set platform reliability standards (SLOs, error budgets, alerting); lead on-call and incident response; represent Apple in upstream Kubernetes SIGs; mentor engineers; advise partner teams on platform capabilities and tradeoffs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence
