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As a principal contributor and technical lead in our Apple Data Platform (ADP) SRE organization, you will apply SRE principles as you mentor and partner with our engineers and partner teams, ensuring large-scale analytics infrastructure runs reliably and efficiently. This role focuses on driving reliability standards, architectural consistency, and engineering excellence across peer SRE teams and partner engineering organizations — spanning Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Data Lakes, and Airflow ecosystems — through technical leadership, cross-functional alignment, and the development of platform-wide tooling, observability, and operational practices that raise the reliability bar for all of ADP. This role includes production on-call responsibilities.
DevOps pay context
Based on 1,243 disclosed DevOps salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $141K/year, with most offers between $115K and $173K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$210K).
Apple ranks among the higher-paying employers for this role, at a $210K median across 19 disclosed postings.
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