Site Reliability Engineer, Apple Ads **Austin, Texas, United States** **Software and Services** **Summary** Posted: **Jul 31, 2025** Role Number: **200600445** At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers’ experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they’re looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses. Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes—from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone. **Description** As an SRE in Apple Ads, you will own the health, performance, and scalability of ad-serving infrastructure and associated platform tooling. Your focus will be on building automation that eliminates manual processes, improves service resilience, and enables teams to move faster with confidence. The person in this role will: * Build and operate distributed systems using AWS managed services such as EKS, MSK, and ElastiCache. * Develop internal tooling and automation frameworks to improve infrastructure reliability, cost-efficiency, and operational visibility. * Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure architecture, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive production excellence. * Design and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, ensuring repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments. * Lead or participate in incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles to reduce future risk. This is not a DevOps-only or CI/CD-focused role. We are looking for engineers who build platform solutions, not just configure pipelines. **Minimum Qualifications** + 5+ years of experience supporting internet-facing production systems and distributed cloud infrastructure. + Strong programming skills in at least one of: Python, Go, or Java. + Proven expertise with AWS-managed infrastructure, especially: + Hands-on experience with Linux systems and deep knowledge of its internals. + Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform. + Strong foundation in SRE concepts: Monitoring, alerting, and observability, incident response and root cause analysis, error budgets, SLAs/SLOs, and system reliability **Preferred Qualifications** + Built tools or services that automate platform operations, reduce toil, or improve cost efficiency. + Experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production environments. + Hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems under real-world load. + Clear communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and product teams. + AWS certifications or broad experience across multiple AWS services is a plus. 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) . 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) . Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation. Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law.Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://www.apple.com/jobs/pdf/EverifyPosterEnglish.pdf) . Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more . Apple is a drug-free workplace. Reasonable Accommodation and Drug Free Workplace policy Learn more . Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you’re applying for a position in San Francisco, review the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance guidelines applicable in your area. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.