Apple
Senior Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services
$145K–$264K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2026
About the job
Design, test, and deploy Apple’s global backbone network, qualifying network platforms and operating systems and building automation to improve network validation.
What you'll do
- Develop scalable test cases and end-to-end plans for network conditions, failures, and edge cases.
- Build automation tools and scripts for network-device control, test setup, measurement, data collection, and execution.
- Reproduce and troubleshoot network failures, document findings, and collaborate across engineering, architecture, deployment, and operations teams.
What they ask for
- Solid understanding of LAN/WAN technologies and protocols, including TCP/IP, ISIS, BGP, and MPLS.
- Experience integrating, validating, and testing complex hardware and software products, and building test cases for network platforms and NOS.
- Experience testing network devices and dependent systems, applications, tools, and infrastructure.
- Hands-on carrier-grade network experience with vendors including Cisco, Arista, and Juniper; experience supporting large-scale backbone networks and traffic engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience with network testing tools and traffic generators such as Ixia and Spirent.
- Experience qualifying network hardware and its network operating systems (NOS).
Pay
$144,600 and $263,800 (base salary)
Tools
TCP/IP, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Ixia
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