Services Engineering, Block Storage SRE

6 hours ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Apple Full time
Apple Cloud infrastructure is vast, and the storage SRE teams of Apple Cloud are building and running the next generation distributed storage systems to support Apple's most critical services. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers, and servicing users with exceptionally large data presents unique challenges.

As a storage SRE at Apple, you'll need to tackle these problems using your deep understanding of storage, data analysis, programming, teamwork, and expertise in Linux system internals. Storage SREs at Apple involve themselves across the full infrastructure stack; from tuning the block storage layer to content delivery network traffic management.

Description
We are looking for seasoned software and systems engineers to join the Block Storage SRE team at Apple The role involves tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the platform, shaping its use by many critical Apple Cloud services for years to come. You are someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineer's work will impact hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.

At Apple Cloud, we run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software development & deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. We believe critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

Does this sound like you? We want you to join our team

Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer or Infrastructure Software Development role.
Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
The ability to design, author, review, and release code in one or more high level language (e.g. Go (preferred), Rust, Python, and/or Java, etc.).
Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in Linux (such as LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, NFS).
Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them with well defined and tested APIs.
Awareness of protocols for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management, failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc.
Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.
Experienced in SRE principles, such as monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common concepts in reliability engineering. Skilled at seeing opportunities to reduce manual work through enhancements in code and processes
Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB).

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