# ASE Compute - Lead SRE Software Engineer

People at Apple don't just build products, they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Service Engineering (ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple's services (such as iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Intelligence, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple's software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work." If you love designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! Description The ASE Compute team is looking for a senior SRE software engineer to own the technical direction of the Kubernetes internals that Apple's services run on. You will set the architecture for our controllers and namespace management infrastructure, strengthen the reliability of our Kubernetes services, and engage with the upstream community to drive Apple's requirements. You

- **Id**: 4025958
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-ase-compute-lead-sre-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-19T22:21:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:48:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 21
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2700
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 358
- **Ghost share**: 0.008
- **Stale share**: 0.022
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Puppet** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes
- **Thanos** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 21

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T16:48:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 21
- **Expected fill days**: 122
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:17:24Z

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