Apple
Systems Architect, Retail and Marcom Engineering
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 12 years of hands-on experience, including at least 3 years in a senior role; preferred: 15+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction for Marcom Engineering’s cloud infrastructure, DevOps and delivery platforms, while advancing reliability, developer productivity, and AI-enabled engineering operations.
What you'll do
- Own the multi-year roadmap and architecture standards for DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD platforms, and cloud architecture.
- Lead platform adoption, migrations, reliability and productivity initiatives, and collaboration with SRE, Security, and Compliance.
- Develop platform strategies for AI/ML delivery, including training infrastructure, LLM inference, feature pipelines, and AIOps; mentor senior and staff engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of hands-on infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a senior role.
- Expertise in AWS or GCP cloud platforms and proficiency in containerization/orchestration and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems; proficiency in at least two of Python, Go, and Java.
Nice to have
- 15+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, especially in large-scale consumer-facing technology environments.
- Experience with MLOps, LLM infrastructure, AIOps, or AI safety and governance.
Tools
AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Pulumi
AI focus
Lead AI-assisted operations, LLM-powered developer tooling, AI/ML workload delivery, and AIOps integration.
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