Site Reliability Engineer (Edge Services), Infrastructure Services
Apple · Austin, TX · Software and Services
About this role
Apple is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer in the software engineering function based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with Python, AWS, GCP, Azure.
- Role
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Department
- Software and Services
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from Apple careersWe are seeking a proactive Site Reliability Engineer to champion the evolution of our production ecosystems. In this role, you will help drive the vision for our visibility, moving beyond simple uptime metrics to build a sophisticated, data-driven reliability framework. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring our services are resilient, scalable, and observable, bridging the gap between complex distributed systems and seamless user experiences. As a key member of the SRE team, your mission is to treat operations as a software problem. You will focus on designing and implementing a next-generation observability and alerting strategy that prioritizes high-cardinality data and meaningful signals over noise. You will spend your time building "self-healing" systems, reducing toil through aggressive automation, and partnering with development teams to bake reliability into the CI/CD pipeline. Your goal is to move us toward a proactive stance where performance bottlenecks are identified and mitigated before they impact the customer. h3 Minimum Qualifications /h3 Understanding of Linux internals and deep networking expertise, including HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), and HTTPS/TLS. You should be comfortable debugging protocol-level issues and optimizing traffic flow. Proven ability to automate repetitive tasks and complex workflows using Python or Go Experience configuring and managing modern…