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People at Apple don’t just build products - they craft the kind of experience that have 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. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is responsible for designing and maintaining the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that support Apple's global services, such as Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, Maps, and many more. Our work forms the foundation upon which our world-class software developers build the products our customers love. We are seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability Engineers to help us sustain our mission of providing the highest quality experience for our customers. ASE services must scale globally, remain highly available and consistently performant. If you are passionate about designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!
Description
Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing, governance, and storage for many of Apple’s global products and organizations. Our platform teams work with exabytes of data, terabytes of memory, and hundreds of thousands of jobs running millions of executors to support predicable and performant data analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music, TV, Maps, News, and other world class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges.
","responsibilities":"You’ll need to solve problems that arise using empirical data, teamwork, and your own unique expertise.
Data Platform Services SREs work directly with our partner engineering teams, tightly collaborating with the software developers to deliver seamless experiences for our customers.
We run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and proprietary tools which you will use and have opportunities to improve upon.
The cross functional team collaborates to ensure we apply a consistent incident management process across all data platform services and provide user journey based SLOs derived from exhaustive observability metrics, high availability architecture, and automation for deployments.
We think critically and strive to balance long-term optimal solutions with the business priorities for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, Trino, and/or Druid.
Proficiency in managing applications and infra on AWS, GCP and Ali Cloud.
The successful candidate is frustrated with toil and has an acute drive to both automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.
Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
Proficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platforms
Experience operating production applications at scale, including well designed performance testing, HA and disaster recovery concepts, capacity planning, and managing distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes
Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers and virtualization, standard networking protocols, and components
Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration
Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills using the scientific method
People at Apple don’t just build products - they craft the kind of experience that have 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. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) is responsible for designing and maintaining the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that support Apple's global services, such as Apple Music, iCloud, Siri, Maps, and many more. Our work forms the foundation upon which our world-class software developers build the products our customers love. We are seeking innovative and dedicated Site Reliability Engineers to help us sustain our mission of providing the highest quality experience for our customers. ASE services must scale globally, remain highly available and consistently performant. If you are passionate about designing, engineering, and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!
Description
Apple Services infrastructure is planetary scale. Our Data Platform Site Reliability Engineering team manages the infrastructure and applications on bare-metal and cloud computing platforms to deliver data processing, governance, and storage for many of Apple’s global products and organizations. Our platform teams work with exabytes of data, terabytes of memory, and hundreds of thousands of jobs running millions of executors to support predicable and performant data analytics. Our platform enables key features in Apple Music, TV, Maps, News, and other world class products. Ensuring all of these technologies in geographically distributed data centers work together in harmony presents unique challenges.
","responsibilities":"You’ll need to solve problems that arise using empirical data, teamwork, and your own unique expertise.
Data Platform Services SREs work directly with our partner engineering teams, tightly collaborating with the software developers to deliver seamless experiences for our customers.
We run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and proprietary tools which you will use and have opportunities to improve upon.
The cross functional team collaborates to ensure we apply a consistent incident management process across all data platform services and provide user journey based SLOs derived from exhaustive observability metrics, high availability architecture, and automation for deployments.
We think critically and strive to balance long-term optimal solutions with the business priorities for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency with the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of open source data analytics or governance technologies such as Flink, Hive, Hadoop/HDFS, Trino, and/or Druid.
Proficiency in managing applications and infra on AWS, GCP and Ali Cloud.
The successful candidate is frustrated with toil and has an acute drive to both automate manual operations and evolve them into automatic processes.
Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent
5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment
Proficiency in authoring and releasing code in Go, Python, or Java using common configuration management and software delivery platforms
Experience operating production applications at scale, including well designed performance testing, HA and disaster recovery concepts, capacity planning, and managing distributed systems on internal and public cloud infrastructure, principally Kubernetes
Understanding of the Linux Operating System, containers and virtualization, standard networking protocols, and components
Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration
Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills using the scientific method
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sre engineer jobs.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration at production scale
- Experience writing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or similar tools
- Hands-on knowledge of monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Datadog, or Grafana
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation
- Demonstrated experience owning incident response, postmortems, and on-call rotations
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Sre Engineer Job Search
Quantify reliability work on your resume
Recruiters screening sre engineer resumes look for concrete outcomes, not task lists. Replace vague bullets with numbers: uptime percentages improved, mean time to recovery reduced, or incidents per quarter eliminated after you introduced automation or runbook changes.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists sre engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your stack keywords per listing
Sre engineer job descriptions vary sharply by stack. One role prioritizes Kubernetes and Terraform, another emphasizes Prometheus and PagerDuty. Mirror the exact tools named in each listing inside your resume summary and a skills section so automated screening doesn't filter you out.
Prepare a postmortem story for interviews
Almost every sre engineer interview includes a production incident question. Pick one real outage you owned, walk through detection, diagnosis, fix, and the blameless postmortem you wrote. Interviewers are evaluating your process and communication, not just your technical fix.
Negotiate on-call compensation separately
Sre engineer offers often include on-call rotations that add real hours to your week. Before accepting, ask how rotations are structured, how many engineers share the pager, and whether on-call shifts come with additional compensation or comp time.
Demonstrate observability depth in your portfolio
Generic cloud experience is common. What differentiates sre engineer candidates is evidence of building or owning observability systems end to end. A public repo, a talk, or even a detailed write-up showing how you instrumented a service and used that data to prevent incidents is a strong differentiator.
Sre Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most sre engineers?
The companies hiring the most sre engineers right now include Apple, JPMorganChase, and MongoDB, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is concentrated in companies running large-scale distributed systems where reliability engineering directly protects revenue and user experience.
How many sre engineer jobs are remote?
About 60% of sre engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the role's strong compatibility with asynchronous, on-call workflows. The sub-areas most likely to be fully remote are platform engineering, tooling development, and observability roles, while roles tied to physical infrastructure or regulated industries tend to require more on-site presence.
How do you become a sre engineer?
Most sre engineers start in software engineering or systems administration, then move into reliability-focused roles. The path typically involves building fluency with Linux internals, networking, and distributed systems, then layering on infrastructure automation, containerization with Kubernetes, and monitoring tooling. Owning real on-call responsibilities, writing postmortems, and demonstrating impact on system stability accelerates the transition into a dedicated sre engineer role.
Can you get a sre engineer job with little experience?
Entry-level sre engineer roles do exist, often titled junior SRE or associate SRE, and they typically prioritize scripting ability, a working knowledge of Linux, and some exposure to cloud platforms over years of experience. Building a personal project that demonstrates monitoring, alerting, or automated deployment, and contributing to open-source observability tools, gives you concrete material to discuss in interviews without a long work history.
What does the sre engineer interview process look like?
Sre engineer interviews typically move through a recruiter screen, a technical phone round covering Linux fundamentals and networking, a coding round focused on systems programming or scripting, and a design round where you architect a reliable distributed system or an observability stack. Many companies also include a scenario-based round where you debug a simulated incident or walk through a postmortem you have written.
Where can I find and apply to sre engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to sre engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and preferred stack, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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