# Site Reliability Engineer - Kafka

The Apple Service Engineering - Data Streaming SRE team is looking for Site Reliability Engineers with experience developing processes, tools, and automation for managing distributed systems in production environments. Our SRE team combines software engineering, systems engineering, and Devops practices to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Our software ensures that Apple's services are reliable, scalable, and secure, and we leverage both open-source and homegrown technologies to provide managed data infrastructure services. You will help build next-generation Kafka infrastructure and platform services, collaborating cross-functionally with various ASE teams-from store and commerce to search and recommendations. You'll create platforms that can rapidly scale to serve data with very low latencies. You should be someone who isn't afraid to question assumptions, thrives as a collaborative partner under tight deadlines, and tackles complex problems with elegant technical solutions. Description The Data Service SRE team develops applications and tooling that are safe, reliable, scalable, and fast. This work requires an innovative spirit and an extr

- **Id**: 2133402
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-site-reliability-engineer-kafka>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-24T16:29:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T20:22:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 113
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3344
- **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**: 94
- **Open postings**: 607
- **Ghost share**: 0.002
- **Stale share**: 0.005
- **Repost share**: 0.082
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 149
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 195000
- **Max usd**: 372000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1808

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 113

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-09T01:22:29Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-20T19:26:25Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-21T03:16:03Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-21T16:58:38Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-21T21:44:07Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-21T21:49:40Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-22T01:51:31Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T20:23:34Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T06:21:11Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:53Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-06T23:40:21Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-10T00:24:00Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-10T05:56:30Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-11T22:29:36Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-12T04:23:18Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-12T16:09:35Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-14T05:22:34Z

## 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**: 51
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.848
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 112
- **Expected fill days**: 149
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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