Phillip Moore
Principal Engineer | SRE, Edge Performance, Cloud Infrastructure | Builder of Global-Scale Systems & High-Throughput Platforms
- Role
- Reliability Engineering at Apple
- Location
- Georgetown, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Phillip Moore
I\'m a Principal Engineer with deep experience leading the architecture and delivery of global-scale software systems. Over my career, I\'ve worked across the entire production stack, from systems internals to user-facing platforms, with a focus on observability, resilience, and performance.I\'ve built and led high-throughput, customer-critical systems at Yahoo, Flickr, and Box. At Box, I founded the Edge Performance team, delivering a global edge network that significantly improved reliability and user experience. I operate at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure strategy, and organizational influence, partnering closely with product and engineering leadership to align architecture with business outcomes.I\'m known for strong technical ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and creating high-functioning engineering environments through mentorship and collaboration. I\'ve consistently mentored junior and senior engineers toward impact and autonomy, and I support Staff+ peers through strategic alignment and architectural influence. I bring a non-dogmatic mindset to technical decision making, balancing best practices with business needs. I stay committed to continuous learning as both a contributor and a leader.Core strengths include- Leading architecture and roadmap execution for large-scale distributed systems and hybrid cloud/on-prem compute platforms- Production systems engineering: infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability- Deep software & systems expertise: UNIX/Linux, network protocols, platform code- Translating business goals into scalable, data-driven software strategies- Building high-trust cross-functional partnerships and mentoring early to mid-career engineers
Experience
Reliability Engineering
Dec 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Education
Mississippi State University
Computer Engineering
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Red Hat Linux
- Solaris
- Linux
- Centos
- Programming
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Unix
- Python
- Linux Server Administration
- Nagios
- Perl
- Apache
- Linux System Administration
- Cluster
- Redhat
- Knows a Guy
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Devops
- Large Scale Systems
- Shell Scripting
- System Administration
- High Availability
- Dns
- Unix Administration
- Operating Systems
- Php
- Nginx
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Servers
- Agile Methodologies
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