SRE -Solr -Apple Services Engineering
Job Description
Summary
The Apple Service Engineering - Solr SRE team is looking for Site Reliability Engineers with experience in developing processes, tools, and automation for managing distributed systems in production environments. Our SRE team combines software and systems engineering and system administration practices to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Our software ensures that Apple’s services are reliable, scalable and secure, and we leverage both open source and home-grown technologies to provide managed data infrastructure services.
You will help building next generation search infrastructure and platform services, collaborating cross-functionally with various ASE teams, from store and commerce to search and recommendations. You’ll create platforms that can rapidly scale to serve personalized and non-personalized data with very low latencies. You should be someone who is not afraid to question assumptions, are a good standout colleague under tight deadlines, and can take on problems with elegant technical solutions
You will help building next generation search infrastructure and platform services, collaborating cross-functionally with various ASE teams, from store and commerce to search and recommendations. You’ll create platforms that can rapidly scale to serve personalized and non-personalized data with very low latencies. You should be someone who is not afraid to question assumptions, are a good standout colleague under tight deadlines, and can take on problems with elegant technical solutions
Description
Apple values craftsmanship and Performance is a key ingredient. Come join us at Apple Services Engineering and help us deliver services and applications that are fluid and responsive. You will collaborate with engineers from across Apple to define the metrics, set targets, uncover optimization opportunities, define quality guardrails, and ship a product/service that will delight our customers. This role is for engineers who enjoy deep technical engineering that spans large cross-organizational projects. Your openness to learning and implementing new technologies will contribute to the continuous evolution of our organization.
We’re looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate person who loves solving engineering problems and working broadly across a fast moving and collaborative organization. If this sounds compelling, please reach out!
We’re looking for a creative, versatile, and passionate person who loves solving engineering problems and working broadly across a fast moving and collaborative organization. If this sounds compelling, please reach out!
Key Qualifications
- Proficient in modern Java and optionally Python.
- Experience with at least one scalable search platform like Solr, ElasticSearch, or OpenSearch.
- Strong production debugging and performance tuning skills.
- Deep understanding of the Linux operating system, including kernel, memory, process, threads. Standard UNIX utilities, programs and packaging.
- Experience with EC2, EBS, and Terraform.
- Experience running stateful services Kubernetes is preferred.
Education & Experience
BS or MS in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience