Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 31, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Apple scores A on the Alion truth index.
Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless. Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.
Description
As a Site Reliability Engineer your primary responsibilities include ensuring system reliability and availability. This involves monitoring performance, participating in on-call rotations, and helping to design highly available systems. You also automate and manage infrastructure, implementing Infrastructure as Code. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, documenting systems, and planning for capacity and scalability are crucial.
Minimum Qualifications
3 years hands-on experience as a systems, storage or cloud engineer
Knowledge of Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) utilities and programs
Expertise in version control systems (Git, SVN), automated build and testing (Jenkins, Vagrant)
Expertise in Kubernetes platform, on-premise or Cloud
Expertise with at least one cloud infrastructure platform (AWS, GCP)
Understanding of enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, Isilon, Object Storage, etc.)
Experience with configuration management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible)
Understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, KVM)
Experience automating workflows with Python or Go
Knowledge of networking technologies including IPv4/IPv6, DNS, network segmentation, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE role including technical ownership of production systems at scale
Background supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms
Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to articulate, document and otherwise communicate technical concepts/details to both technical and non-technical audiences
Working knowledge of basic web technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS etc. and hands on experience debugging web applications at the network/protocol level
Experience with GitOps infrastructure automation
Experience with multi-platform cloud and on-premise applications at scale, particularly with AWS and/or Alicloud
Experience building web applications and services at scale in Go
Experience performance-tuning web applications, especially across all contributing factors