Global Payments Systems Architect for Reliability & Scale

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Pay's architecture team seeks an Architect to set the technical direction for reliability, scalability, and availability across mission-critical systems. You will translate opinions into concrete architecture, tooling, and practices used in production.

The role involves reviewing designs, prototyping decisions, and leading incident reviews with cross-functional teams to improve systemic resiliency at Apple’s global scale.

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems at scale in high-throughput, low-latency environments.
• Deep expertise in replication, partitioning, consensus, eventual vs strong consistency, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Able to operate across large landscapes and drive alignment across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction for Apple's distributed systems, focusing on reliability, observability, and scalability.
• Review designs for resilience gaps, and lead incident postmortems to drive systemic fixes.
• Collaborate with client, server, devops, and product teams to account for real-world operational constraints.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Reliability engineering

Observability

Job description

Apple Pay's architecture team seeks an Architect to set the technical direction for reliability, scalability, and availability across mission-critical systems. You will translate opinions into concrete architecture, tooling, and practices used in production.

The role involves reviewing designs, prototyping decisions, and leading incident reviews with cross-functional teams to improve systemic resiliency at Apple’s global scale.