Traffic and Secure Services Network SRE Engineer

Job Summary
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Apple is a leading technology company focused on building systems that power services used by millions worldwide. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their Seattle team, responsible for designing and operating infrastructure systems for traffic management and secure networking. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams to enhance system performance and reliability across Apple's global ecosystem.

Responsibilities
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• Design, build, and operate highly available infrastructure systems for traffic routing, load balancing, and secure connectivity at global scale.

• Collaborate with development teams to influence architecture, improve observability, and embed SRE best practices across the SDLC.

• Respond to incidents when needed (on-call rotation), but spend most of your time preventing them through proactive engineering, monitoring, and system improvements.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in secure, high-performance networking.

• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement: write clear documentation, conduct blameless postmortems, and help define SLOs that align with business impact.

• Help mentor teammates and share knowledge across a growing international SRE community.

Qualifications
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Required
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• 3+ years of experience in traffic management, networking infrastructure, or distributed systems.

• 3+ years of software engineering or reliability engineering experience

• Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering disciplines

Preferred
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• Are proficient in at least one modern programming or scripting language (e.g., Golang, Rust, Python, Java, bash) and have a track record of shipping production-grade tooling or services.

• Understand the internals of load balancing, TLS, and secure network communications, especially in large-scale environments.

• Thrive in dynamic situations: whether responding to critical incidents or designing long-term solutions, you know when to act and when to align.

• Believe automation is a first-class responsibility, not an afterthought. Past work might include automating deployments, alert triage, certificate rotation, or self-service workflows.

• Communicate clearly and work effectively across time zones and disciplines. You’ll engage regularly with teams in North America, requiring thoughtful planning around collaboration rhythms.

• Are passionate about operational excellence and continuously setting the standard for reliability, performance, and security.

• Experience with cloud-native proxies or service mesh technologies.

• Hands-on involvement with Dev Ops culture, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Proven success delivering robust, diagnosable systems in 24x7 customer-facing environments.

• A mindset of lifelong learning and sharing, contributing diverse perspectives to technical discussions and team growth.

Company
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Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software. Founded in 1976, the company is headquartered in Cupertino, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.