Site Reliability Engineer - Kafka

Apple

Seattle, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-28

Core

Building and running large-scale, fault-tolerant data streaming infrastructure and platform services using Kafka.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kafka/Data Streaming)

Builds

Next-generation Kafka infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring tooling, and control plane enhancements.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data streaming

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Kafka infrastructure management, Kubernetes operations, performance engineering, incident management, automation tooling, multi-datacenter system design, IaC (Terraform), cloud architecture (AWS/GCP), Java/Go/Python

Preferred skills

Messaging services management, deep troubleshooting of distributed systems and database storage engines

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