Apple
Senior Cloud Infrastructure and AI Efficiency Engineer
$175K–$325K
Austin, Texas +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California
San Francisco, California
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 10+ years in an engineering role; preferred qualifications also specify 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing public- and private-cloud infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Drives infrastructure planning and efficiency by analyzing cloud architecture, costs, utilization, and AI systems, then delivering strategic insights and recommendations to engineering and business teams.
What you'll do
- Analyze cloud architecture, cost, and utilization across Apple services and hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Translate infrastructure data into business metrics and recommendations that improve financial and operational outcomes.
- Use AI to provide proactive insights and architectural recommendations throughout the development lifecycle.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in an engineering role, with a track record of owning and delivering complex initiatives end-to-end.
- Ability to architect and deliver complex technical solutions involving multiple technologies, cloud services, and AI systems from prototype to production at scale.
- Hands-on SQL skills, schema-design understanding, and ability to identify expensive queries.
- Experience with compute containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and optimizing infrastructure across public and private clouds, FinOps and cost optimization, observability, and AI-native workflows.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary; $175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudability, CloudHealth
AI focus
Use AI to generate proactive infrastructure insights and recommendations; work with AI systems and explore foundation models, agentic AI, AI-native workflows, and AI-assisted cost analysis.
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