Senior SRE Software Engineer - ASE Compute
Core
Senior SRE owning technical direction of Kubernetes internals, controllers, and namespace management infrastructure for Apple's global services.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC SRE (Kubernetes internals)
Builds
Controllers, namespace management infrastructure, and AI-assisted operational tooling
Domain
Cloud infrastructure / Kubernetes / System reliability
Required skills
Kubernetes internals, Go (expert), controller/operator development, large-scale multi-tenant environment operations, full-stack troubleshooting, configuration management at scale, incident response leadership, cross-functional technical leadership
Preferred skills
Third-party cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), bare-metal provisioning at datacenter scale, cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk), internal managed service infrastructure
Technologies
Kubernetes, Go, Puppet, Ansible, Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk
Responsibilities
Own architecture and technical direction for controllers and namespace management; fix reliability problems beyond upstream defaults; set reliability standards (SLOs, error budgets, alerting); lead on-call and incident response; represent Apple in upstream Kubernetes community; mentor engineers; lead cross-team technical efforts
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC