Apple
Cloud Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services
$185K–$325K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Full-time · Posted Feb 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in network engineering.
About the job
Own the reliability, scale strategy, and architecture of Apple’s hyperscale cloud network, leading cross-organizational initiatives and setting standards for its future.
What you'll do
- Model network deployment scale and complexity, forecast architectural limits, and shape roadmaps to address future risks.
- Lead reliability initiatives, define availability standards and SLO frameworks, and drive systemic fixes from incidents.
- Represent Cloud Network in major infrastructure initiatives, set org-wide architectural standards, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of network engineering experience, including substantial operation of large-scale networks in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Demonstrated ownership of production availability and incident response for business-critical infrastructure.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN, Kubernetes CNI, service mesh, and overlay networks.
- Experience leading cross-functional or cross-team technical projects from design through execution.
Nice to have
- Architect-level technical leadership beyond the immediate team; background across network and compute infrastructure.
- Experience building and tracking SLOs/error budgets and driving reliability programs; history of securing buy-in for technical initiatives.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $324,800 base salary
Tools
BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN, Kubernetes CNI, service mesh, overlay networks
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