Apple · 11 hours ago
Cloud Network Reliability Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$212K/yr - $318K/yrApple Cloud Networking team builds and operates large-scale, software-defined networking platforms that enable secure, resilient, and highly available multi-cloud connectivity with a global footprint. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Cloud Network Reliability Engineer to drive the technical strategy and execution for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of Apple's global network services.
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Responsibilities
Define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and reliability strategy for large-scale cloud networking platforms spanning control plane and data plane systems
Architect and evolve fault-tolerant, highly available network services, ensuring graceful degradation and consistent performance under partial and systemic failure scenarios
Establish platform-wide resiliency patterns including service discovery, health checking, automated failover, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and traffic management across multi-region and multi-cloud environments
Lead the design of network configuration management, routing state distribution, traffic engineering, and capacity planning systems, balancing scalability, correctness, and operational simplicity
Serve as a senior technical authority and architectural reviewer, influencing critical design decisions across multiple teams and ensuring network failure modes are explicitly addressed
Build and champion automation-first reliability solutions, including topology discovery, deployment safety mechanisms, self-healing systems, and operational tooling that reduce toil and improve MTTR
Define and own reliability metrics and observability standards (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets), using data to drive engineering trade-offs, reliability investments, and incident response improvements
Multiply impact through cross-team technical leadership, embedding reliability early in design, mentoring engineers, and sharing deep technical knowledge through documentation and technical talks
Qualification
Required
Extensive experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering
Strong background in designing, operating, and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems at hyper scale
Strong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching
Solid understanding of network infrastructure and software-defined networking (SDN)
Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and influence technical decisions across teams
Preferred
Expert knowledge of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc)
In depth knowledge of K8s, OpenStack, system virtualization, build systems and infrastructure as code
Strong knowledge of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and qualification engineering
Broad knowledge of networking solutions across OSI layers 3 through 7
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate risk, reliability trade-offs, and operational priorities
Proven ability to manage competing priorities, drive initiatives to completion, and deliver results in fast-paced environments
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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Founded in 1976
10001+ employees
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