Messaging SRE Manager, Apple Services Engineering
Apple
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 190,700-329,600 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 26, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200592669
People at Apple don't just build products — they craft experiences our customers love and depend on. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds and supports the systems that make many of these daily experiences possible. The Messaging SRE team is directly responsible for server reliability for APNs, iMessage, and FaceTime, and other messaging use cases that are critical for millions of our users. We focus on availability and automation of key services that back these experiences every minute of every day all around the world!
Description
We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team. You will be an accomplished builder and leader of teams looking to take on your next challenge. You know SRE and you know what it will take to run services at Apple scale with a high degree of operational precision. This role will position you to help craft the future of how we build and run our services with meaningful impact on a global scale. You will have the technical chops to go deep, yet retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and product goals. We hire high quality engineers with a diverse set of experiences and skills for positions on Apple. Our customers count on us to provide extraordinary availability, scalability, and security for services. If you’d like to positively influence millions of customers’ experience of Apple this is the job for you. As a Site Reliability Engineering Manager, responsibilities include: - Lead SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of on-prem and cloud-based services - Run staging and production environments with goal of maximizing uptimes - Promote observability of systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting - Advocate best practices of reliability engineering
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with large scale distributed systems
- Demonstrable success leading engineering teams; ideally SRE or Production Engineering
- Knowledge of core operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management
- Understanding of SRE principals, including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common reliability engineering concepts
- Experience with hiring and leading engineers
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years professional experience in an engineering leadership position
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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