Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Private Cloud Compute

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 tackle 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 perfection. This role will position you to help shape the future of how we build and run our services on a global scale. You will have the technical skills to go deep and retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and product goals. We hire high quality leaders and engineers with a diverse set of experiences and skill sets 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.

Lead SRE teams responsible for reliability and performance of on-prem and cloud-based services
Leading and growing the engineers on your team
Manage staging and production environments with goal of maximizing availability
Promote observability of systems for monitoring, alerting, and metrics reporting
Advocate best practices of reliability engineering

Experience with large scale distributed systems, especially ML infrastructure and services including LLMs, Generative AI, and transformers
3+ Years demonstrable success leading engineering teams - ideally SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps
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
Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or equivalent field

5+ years professional experience in an engineering leadership position

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. If you’ve used Apple products, you’ve likely interacted with us. Private Cloud Compute (PCC) represents a groundbreaking approach to cloud intelligence, extending the security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud to unlock even more intelligence for our users. This SRE team is responsible for the availability and automation of the critical systems and services that enable PCC to deliver cloud intelligence without compromising user privacy. If you're passionate about building the future of privacy-preserving cloud infrastructure at scale, this is the opportunity for you!

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $198,300 and $342,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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