Apple
Distinguished Engineer – Quality Engineering & Performance, Wallet, Payments & Commerce
$249K–$394K
Cupertino, California +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Feb 16, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
San Diego, California - Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines and leads quality engineering, performance, reliability, and production validation strategy across Apple’s Wallet, Payments & Commerce systems.
What you'll do
- Set reliability and performance architecture, standards, and frameworks across development, pre-production, and production.
- Lead resilience, performance optimization, observability, automation, and AI-assisted validation initiatives.
- Influence cross-organizational engineering direction and mentor senior technical leaders.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in reliability engineering, large-scale automation, and performance engineering for distributed systems.
- Experience defining SLO/SLA frameworks for mission-critical systems at massive scale and architecting cloud-native resilience strategies.
- Experience with regulated financial or high-trust systems; ability to influence architecture across complex organizations.
- Strong background in observability, telemetry, production validation, and AI/ML-driven validation or engineering productivity systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in payment systems, money movement, tokenization, or transaction processing.
- Experience testing global multi-region failover architectures or building large-scale automated testing platforms.
Pay
USD $262,500 to $394,000 base salary; USD $249,400 to $374,300 base salary
Tools
AWS
AI focus
Drive AI-assisted test generation, log analysis, anomaly detection, and validation systems; embed AI/ML-driven validation or engineering productivity systems.
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