Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple Corporate Finance Systems Engineering is looking for an Application Support Engineer for a critical payments application. The Corporate Systems group at Apple focuses on creative ways to engineer business solutions to meet growing needs of Apple’s Finance, Apple Pay, iTunes, Sales, Retail, and IT Service organizations. At core, our portfolio comprises of engineered custom solutions to process very high-volume micro-transactions from Apple Pay, iTunes Downloads, App Store, iPhone Activations, sales from Retail, Online, and Resellers, etc. These solutions are based on cutting edge enterprise technologies ranging from Server Side Java, Web Technologies, Search Platforms, Cloud Technology, Oracle and NoSQL Databases. Accurately processing such high volume transactions is our core strength.

Description

In this role, you will be a part of the operations team for a payments platform. The role requires candidate to embrace a complex software product architecture to support a continuous stream of payments data to ensure accurate invoicing, disbursements, receipts and payments. This role is responsible for infrastructure design and scalability to support the platform and for the related product development. The role will actively monitor production health of the platform including tickets, operational retrospect’s and definition/management of necessary controls. As business evolves, this role will identify utilities that can assist in operations and execute the product development for it. Monitoring, alerting, profiling tools, fault tolerance etc will be a charter for this role. The platform is a part of very fast paced initiates from a range of business units. Good communication, building business relationships and thriving in fast pace are necessary for this role. Will you join us in crafting solutions that do not yet exist?

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant experience supporting critical production applications.
• Fundamental knowledge in Java and fluency in scripting languages such as Bash and/or Python.
• Significant experience querying and modifying data in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in identifying performance bottlenecks and suggesting optimizations.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS Computer Science or Equivalent.
• Experience working in financial systems.
• Experience with application monitoring and profiling tools.
• Familiarity with container technology and CI/CD systems.