ASE Observability SRE - Seattle
Core
Design, build, and operate world-class observability capabilities (monitoring, alerting, visualization) for Apple's global services infrastructure to ensure 100% availability and performance for hundreds of millions of users.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability)
Builds
Central nervous system of Apple's architecture including monitoring, alerting, and visualization platforms analyzing billions of metrics per minute.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, and global service delivery.
Required skills
Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Linux, CI/CD, incident response, root cause analysis, automation, scalability design, cost optimization.
Preferred skills
Go, Rust, Spinnaker, Pulumi, cloud database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, PolarDB), complex systemic issue investigation, asynchronous global team collaboration.
Technologies
Kubernetes, AliCloud (ACK, ECS, Serverless, RDS, SLB/ALB, CDN), Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Terraform, Pulumi, Spinnaker, Linux.
Responsibilities
Own and defend SLIs/SLOs for customer-facing services; maintain production environments on Linux and AliCloud; manage global traffic routing and load balancing; maintain zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines; build dashboards and alerting frameworks; implement automated scaling rules; drive incident response and root cause analysis.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC