Senior Cloud Engineer - Platform & Security Leader

Apple Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for the Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team in Austin, TX.

Lead end-to-end platform capabilities, set technical direction, and partner across product, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions. You will mentor engineers, shape platform-as-a-product offerings, and champion policy-as-code controls to ensure security is built into every release.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of platform capabilities end-to-end — from gathering requirements with product and partner teams to running them in production.
• Drive technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives, framing trade-offs and aligning engineering, security, quality, and SRE partners around shared outcomes.
• Architect and evolve our platform-as-a-product offerings, treating internal developers as first-class customers and reducing the friction between idea and production.
• Lead the design and rollout of security-first patterns and policy-as-code controls (Kyverno, OPA) so the platform makes the secure path the easy path.
• Solve complex problems using a mix of open-source and in-house tooling, balancing pragmatism with the long-term health of the platform.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design partnership, and targeted coaching on complex assignments.
• Scale existing technologies and introduce new ones to outpace growth projections, and shepherd them from experiment to production-grade adoption.
• Represent the team in cross-organization initiatives, partnering with adjacent platform, security and developer teams to keep our technical strategy cohesive.
• Evangelize next-generation cloud and DevOps practices, building the credibility and shared understanding needed to bring them to fruition across WPC.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Platform thinking

Networking fundamentals

Security mindset

DevOps practices

SRE collaboration

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Crossplane

Istio

Traefik

Linkerd

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Sensu

Kyverno

OPA

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for the Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team in Austin, TX.

Lead end-to-end platform capabilities, set technical direction, and partner across product, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions. You will mentor engineers, shape platform-as-a-product offerings, and champion policy-as-code controls to ensure security is built into every release.