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Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and scale distributed object storage and other large-scale stateful systems.
- Own projects and deliverables from solution design through successful implementation.
- Design, author, understand, and release production code.
- Improve automation, operational efficiency, deployment practices, and internal engineering tools.
- Provide technical feedback and help establish technical standards across the team.
- Deploy, support, and monitor services, platforms, and application stacks.
- Participate in a weekend-inclusive on-call rotation and handle critical alerts and incidents.
- Collaborate with teammates across UK and US time zones.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems or other large-scale stateful systems such as distributed databases.
- Ability to develop in Go, Java, Python, or Rust, with Go preferred.
- Understanding of block, object, and file storage technologies in Linux, including LVM, XFS, ext4, S3, Ceph, Gluster, and NFS.
- Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
- Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup and recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
- Preferred experience managing large numbers of systems with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Spinnaker.
- Preferred experience deploying, supporting, and monitoring services, platforms, and application stacks.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture, Kubernetes, and relational or non-relational databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and RocksDB.
- Ability to automate manual operations and improve them iteratively.
- Awareness of storage deployment best practices, change management, failure domains, and hardware lifecycle management.
Benefits
- Weekend-inclusive on-call rotation is required.
- Cross-time-zone collaboration between UK and US team members is part of the role.
- Travel to Apple locations in the US or EU may be required.
- Opportunity to influence storage platforms supporting critical Apple Cloud services and hundreds of millions of users.
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About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.