Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 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 Sr Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a technical leader driving reliability, availability, and scalability across infrastructure, storage, and cloud platforms that power www.apple.com interactive marketing experiences around the globe. You will independently own critical systems end-to-end, set technical direction for reliability practices across the team, and raise the bar for engineering rigor.
Minimum Qualifications
5 years of hands-on experience as a systems, storage, or cloud engineer, including technical ownership of production systems at scale
Knowledge of Linux (OEL, RHEL, CentOS) utilities and internals
Expertise in version control (Git) and automated build/test systems (Jenkins, Vagrant)
Expertise in Kubernetes platform experience, on-premise or cloud
Experience with at least one major cloud infrastructure platform, including architecture-level decisions
Hands on experience with storage platforms (NetApp, Isilon, object storage) at scale
Hands on experience in configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)
Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade x86-based hardware platforms
Automation skills in Python or Go
Knowledge of basic networking, internet, and web technologies including IPv4/IPv6, DNS, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS etc. and hands on experience debugging web applications at the network/protocol level
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building or scaling an internal platform/tooling adopted broadly across infrastructure teams
Background supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms
Experience mentoring or leading a small team of SREs, even without formal management authority, influencing technical direction across teams
Proven ability to independently drive a reliability initiative from design through production and long-term ownership
Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to articulate, document and otherwise communicate technical concepts/details to both technical and non-technical audiences
Practical experience with GitOps infrastructure automation
Deep experience with multi-platform cloud and on-premise applications at scale, particularly with AWS and/or Alicloud
Experience migrating bare metal/virtualized applications and infrastructure to containerized cloud deployments
Experience building web applications and services at scale in Go
Experience with large-scale systems - performance tuning, replication, failover - as part of an SRE role
Experience with security hardening of production infrastructure at scale