Network Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Socket.dev; California (MO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an experienced Network Reliability Engineer within the Information Systems and Technology organization. You will drive the reliability strategy for Apple's global network platform, partnering across engineering, infrastructure, and operations to ensure high availability, latency, and security.

The role emphasizes proactive engineering, observability, and scalable fault-tolerant design. In this technical leadership position, you will shape fault-tolerant architectures across

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy and execution for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of Apple's global network services.
• Lead and partner with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver reliable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Define and drive the reliability and resiliency architecture for Apple's network platform services.
• Establish SRE and SWE best practices, architect fault-tolerant network control and data planes, and champion data-driven decision making through observability and automation.
• Drive resilient cloud networking solutions that operate reliably across multiple cloud providers and global regions.

Job description

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.” Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here. Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.

Description

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Network Reliability Engineer to drive the technical strategy and execution for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of Apple's global network services. In this role, you will work as a technical leader solving complex networking challenges at massive scale, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams across Apple to deliver reliable, fault-tolerant systems. As a technical leader within the Cloud Networking organization, you will define and drive the reliability and resiliency architecture for Apple's network platform services. You will be responsible for establishing SRE and SWE best practices, architecting fault-tolerant network control and data planes, and championing data-driven decision-making through observability and automation. You will drive resilient cloud networking solutions that operate reliably across multiple cloud providers and global regions, handling failures gracefully and maintaining service availability. Your technical leadership will ensure Apple's network services meet demanding availability, latency, resilience, and security requirements while continuously improving operational maturity. We are looking for a technical expert who deeply understands cloud networking at scale, is passionate about operating mission-critical, globally distributed infrastructure, preventing outages through proactive engineering, and driving long-term reliability improvements through architectural excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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, batchingSolid understanding of network infrastructure and software-defined networking (SDN).
• Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and influence technical decisions across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.