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SRE Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers to own the reliability, operability, and performance of Apple's customer-facing cloud services.

Role type

Senior IC SRE Manager (people leadership + hands-on technical direction)

Builds

Customer-facing cloud services for Apple's global user base

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineering

Required skills

Distributed systems operations, team leadership, technical roadmap planning, incident management, SLO definition, capacity planning, observability, hiring and resourcing, hands-on coding review

Preferred skills

Container orchestration, service proxies, load balancing, messaging systems, caching, infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery, automation, AI-assisted workflows

Technologies

Java, Python, Go, Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing)

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for SRE domains, plan and prioritize team roadmap, monitor service health via SLOs and incidents, lead incident response and production issue mitigation, build partnerships with engineering teams, provide performance feedback and career growth guidance, own hiring and resourcing plans

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management