SRE Manager, Apple Services Engineering

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft experiences our customers love and depend on. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds and supports the systems that make many of these daily experiences possible. If you’ve used Apple products, you’ve likely interacted with us. iCloud Services SRE teams are responsible for the systems and services that directly support those customers and their experiences. We focus on availability and automation of key services that run iCloud every minute of every day all around the world!

Description

We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team. You will be an accomplished builder and leader of teams looking to take on your next challenge. You know SRE and you know what it will take to run services at Apple scale with a high degree of operational precision. This role will position you to help craft the future of how we build and run our services with meaningful impact on a global scale. You will have the technical chops to go deep, yet retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and product goals. We hire high quality engineers with a diverse set of experiences and skills for positions on Apple. Our customers count on us to provide extraordinary availability, scalability, and security for services. If you’d like to positively influence millions of customers’ experience of Apple this is the job for you.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of on-prem and cloud-based services
• Run staging and production environments with goal of maximizing uptimes
• Promote observability of systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting
• Advocate best practices of reliability engineering

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with large scale distributed systems
• Demonstrable success leading engineering teams; ideally SRE or Production Engineering
• Knowledge of core operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management
• Understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts
• Experience with hiring and leading engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience in an engineering leadership position

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $190,700 and $329,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.