Apple
Senior Cloud Engineer (Wallet, Payments and Commerce)
Cary, North Carolina · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years required; 10+ years highly desirable.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
About the job
Leads end-to-end design, delivery, and operation of cloud platform capabilities for Apple Wallet, Payments and Commerce, setting technical direction and scaling secure infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own platform capabilities from requirements gathering through production operation.
- Set technical direction for multi-quarter initiatives and align engineering, security, quality, and SRE partners.
- Architect platform-as-a-product offerings and lead infrastructure build pipelines and CI/CD releases.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience, including end-to-end production ownership.
- Experience building platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and APIs on Kubernetes using frameworks such as gRPC or REST.
- Hands-on Kubernetes and container expertise across multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region environments; deep Crossplane and Terraform experience.
- Experience with public cloud, GitOps and CI/CD, networking, Linux systems troubleshooting, and observability stacks.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of work experience; proficiency in Golang and the Kubernetes Operator pattern; public cloud expertise in AWS or AliCloud; service mesh experience with Istio Ambient mode or Cilium.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.
Tools
Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, Crossplane, Terraform, Flux, Jenkins, Kargo
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