Apple
Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Wallet, Payments & Commerce
$262K–$394K
Cupertino, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years required; 15+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines the technical vision and architecture for infrastructure supporting Apple Wallet, Payments & Commerce data services, cloud environments, and global traffic management.
What you'll do
- Set standards for transactional and analytical data integrity, consistency, replication, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
- Architect cloud and hybrid infrastructure and global traffic systems for resilience, scale, security, and payment availability.
- Establish reliability and observability practices, lead technical alignment, and mentor senior engineers.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise across infrastructure engineering, distributed data systems, cloud-native architecture, and traffic or networking at massive scale.
- Experience designing large-scale distributed systems and resilient cloud or hybrid architectures, including hands-on AWS or comparable platform experience.
- Expertise in critical-data correctness and experience designing traffic management for high-availability, multi-region systems.
- Experience with SLO/SLA and resilience frameworks, technical leadership, regulated systems, and mentoring technical talent.
Nice to have
- Experience in payment systems, money movement, tokenization, or high-volume transaction processing.
- Experience with active-active or multi-region failover, service mesh, API gateways, CDN, edge infrastructure, streaming data, or data reconciliation.
Pay
$262,500 and $394,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, cloud-native architecture, hybrid architectures, service mesh, API gateways, CDN, streaming data platforms, change data capture
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