Senior Cloud Infra Engineer – ML/GenAI Platform

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

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to architect and operate scalable ML/cloud platforms. You will design microservices, implement IaC, and optimize data pipelines for high throughput and low latency. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and collaboration with ML engineers and data scientists.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software engineering, strong Go skills, and proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform in production.

Qualifications

• BS and minimum 10 years industry experience.
• Strong Go programming skills for systems development.
• Experience designing production microservices.
• Proven track record influencing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and services supporting ML and synthetic data platforms.
• Design and implement microservices and APIs, from system design through production deployment and operations.
• Build and optimize data storage, messaging, and service-to-service communication patterns for high throughput and low latency (e.g., S3, Postgres, SQS).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm Charts, Kubernetes Manifest) and automation for reliable, repeatable environments.
• Apply quantitative approaches to optimize performance, cost, and reliability while meeting demanding experience goals.
• Drive cross-functional architecture alignment; influence partner teams and senior technical stakeholders through design reviews and technical proposals.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices for robustness, security, testing, and operational excellence.
• Participate in Agile development workflows and contribute to continuous improvement across planning, execution, and delivery.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Microservices

Performance optimization

Education

BS degree

Tools

AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, ELB, SQS)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Postgres

NoSQL

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to architect and operate scalable ML/cloud platforms. You will design microservices, implement IaC, and optimize data pipelines for high throughput and low latency. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and collaboration with ML engineers and data scientists.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software engineering, strong Go skills, and proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform in production.