- Do you want to have a significant impact on how work is done at Apple? Radar is used by
- every major organization across Apple to help teams organize and track their work. As
- Apple’s primary tool for defining, tracking, and testing issues, Radar has been used for
- decades across various teams, including hardware and software engineering. It serves as a
- unified platform for bug tracking, test case management, and product management, facilitat-
- ing seamless coordination among team members. The Radar Engineering team at Apple
- seeks an early-career Swift Engineer to help build the native Radar apps used across Apple on
- macOS and iOS.
- As a Site Reliability Engineer for Radar, you will help keep Apple’s platform for product devel-
- opment, bug tracking, and work management available, fast, and healthy. Radar is a high-
- traffic, business-critical system used by teams across all of Apple, and when it is down, engi-
- neering across the company feels it. Reliability is the job.
- You will join a growing team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. In our highly
- collaborative environment, you will work closely with a team of passionate builders to deliver
- end-to-end features critical to Apple’s engineering workflows. You will receive structured
- mentorship, comprehensive training in Apple’s development practices, and the support to
- learn and develop your skills quickly.
- You will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the infrastructure behind a complex microser-
- vices ecosystem. You will respond to incidents, build alerting and dashboards, and learn how
- a platform at this scale stays stable while it constantly evolves. As you ramp up, you will take
- on increasing ownership of services, help drive root cause analysis, and automate away the
- work that keeps the platform running.
- Monitor the health and performance of Radar’s services, and respond to alerts and incidents.
- Build and improve dashboards, alerting, run books, and telemetry.
- Investigate production issues and contribute to root cause analysis and follow-up fixes.
- Automate operational tasks with scripts and tooling.
- Participate in an on-call rotation with support from senior engineers.
- Follow and help improve the team’s operational best practices.
- Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, Java, or similar language.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals.
- Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, containers, or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
- Interest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI-assisted operations
- tools.
- Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.
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