Apple

Application Reliability Engineer

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Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the operational health and reliability of a high-scale payments platform.
  • Diagnose, reproduce, and permanently resolve application and production issues rather than applying temporary workarounds.
  • Read and modify production code to implement fixes and add detection or prevention mechanisms.
  • Troubleshoot databases, concurrency, asynchronous processing, performance bottlenecks, resource leaks, and dependency timeouts.
  • Drive root-cause resolution for production incidents and identify chronic issues through observability and trend analysis.
  • Build tools, frameworks, automation, engineering proposals, and support playbooks that prevent recurring problems.
  • Contribute to system design and architecture discussions focused on reliability and scalability.

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of experience in software engineering, application support, or SRE roles for critical, high-scale production systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Java or another JVM language, plus proficiency in Python, Go, C++, or shell scripting.
  • Ability to read, debug, and modify production code to implement permanent fixes.
  • SQL and database troubleshooting experience with systems such as Oracle, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.
  • Understanding of concurrency, threading, asynchronous processing, and related failure modes.
  • Experience with logs, metrics, traces, application-level observability, Linux/Unix fundamentals, performance profiling, and production incident resolution.
  • Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Redis, Memcached, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, S3, and GridFS.
  • Working knowledge of REST/API, distributed systems, high-throughput and high-availability design, cloud migration, and reliability-focused architecture discussions.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, customer and product focus, and ability to build engineering relationships and documentation.
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About Apple

10,000+ employees

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.

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