The ASE Compute team is looking for a senior SRE software engineer to own the technical direction of the Kubernetes internals that Apple's services run on. You will set the architecture for our controllers and namespace management infrastructure, strengthen the reliability of our Kubernetes services, and engage with the upstream community to drive Apple's requirements. You will write the hardest parts yourself, and raise what the rest of the team can build through design review, mentoring, and the tools you build. Service teams across Apple will come to you as the technical authority on what the platform can do and where it is going. The role also offers room to build AI-assisted tooling that accelerates triage, operational workflows, and infrastructure automation for the whole team.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure focused role
Deep experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments in production
Strong systems background — comfortable troubleshooting across the full stack (network, OS, container runtime, application)
Expert-level Go, with a track record of shipping and owning controllers or operators that other teams depend on.
Experience with configuration management at scale (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent)
Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives to completion
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with third-party cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management at datacenter scale
Understanding of cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk, or similar)
Experience running infrastructure as an internal managed service with defined SLAs