AWS Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Ads
Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services Summary Posted:
Apr 18, 2025 Role Number:
At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers' experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they're looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses.
Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes-from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Description As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for providing the platform for mission-critical ad-tech systems to maintain constant uptime, scale seamlessly, and allow for new applications and services to flourish.
The successful candidate will be highly self-motivated and passionate about excellence, quality, and detail. The SRE will not only support operations but also work closely with the developers and architects within the team to aid in the design and assist with the implementation to improve stability, security, and scalability.
Minimum Qualifications - 5+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production services and distributed systems.
- Good programming skills in one of Java or Python, or Go.
- Expertise in operating Linux based systems, with a proven understanding of its internals.
- Experience in building and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
- Understanding of core SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management.
- Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation and to improve them through repeated iteration
- Experience building and running infrastructures on AWS, including using services like EKS, MSK, and ElasticCache.
- Experience in Infrastructure as a code like terraform
Preferred Qualifications - Passion for customer privacy
- Experience in leading the deep-dive and troubleshooting of production issues with an active diagnostic call.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability utilizing creative and innovative thinking while adhering to a strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through clear communication.
- Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
- Experience building solutions that reduces friction in software delivery.
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