Cloud Fault-Tolerant Network Engineer

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Infrastructure Services (Cloud Network Fault Tolerance) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join a team building fault-tolerant, distributed systems that automate detection, diagnosis, and remediation across a massive cloud network.

You will design sensing, decision, and remediation layers for real-time resilience at scale. The role emphasizes deep formal reasoning about systems, with opportunities to work on research-inspired problems, develop live

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 to 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Foundations in distributed systems architecture, concurrency, graph algorithms, and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automated detection, diagnosis, and remediation systems for network faults across a hyperscale cloud environment.
• Develop the decision logic and safety mechanisms for automated corrective actions on production infrastructure.
• Analyze failure patterns and systemic weaknesses to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Build simulation, chaos testing, and fault-injection tooling to surface weaknesses before incidents occur.
• Apply formal reasoning about distributed systems and control theory to production software.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant design

Go

C++

Rust

Python

Chaos engineering

System design

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

eBPF/XDP

Linux networking

OVS

Raft/Paxos

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer for Infrastructure Services (Cloud Network Fault Tolerance) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join a team building fault-tolerant, distributed systems that automate detection, diagnosis, and remediation across a massive cloud network.

You will design sensing, decision, and remediation layers for real-time resilience at scale. The role emphasizes deep formal reasoning about systems, with opportunities to work on research-inspired problems, develop live