Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (SDN/Networking)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Educational expense reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Sr Software Engineer to help build scalable Infrastructure Services for its massive cloud and on-device ecosystem. You will design, develop, and operate services enabling virtualized networks, compute, and storage at global scale.

Responsibilities include building scalable services, APIs, and telemetry with Go, C++, and Java, while leading cross-functional efforts and ensuring high availability in a complex multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 10 years of hands-on software development experience, with 4+ years in distributed control planes or SDN.
• Deep knowledge of L3/L4 networking (IPv4/IPv6, NAT, DNS, routing, IPAM).
• GoLang, C, or Python with Go preferred; strong concurrency skills.
• Experience in multi-cloud networking, cross-functional leadership.
• Proven root-cause analysis of networking issues and telemetry systems.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable services and APIs.
• Design architecture, data structures, algorithms, and microservice patterns.
• Debug production issues and drive timely closures; prioritize work and coordinate across teams.

Skills

Java

C++

Go

Scripting

Git

Config management

Distributed systems

APIs

Microservices

Telemetry

Tools

OVS

iptables/nftables

eBPF

Terraform

OpenTofu

ArgoCD

GitLab CI

Kubernetes networking

Linux

Job description

Apple, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Sr Software Engineer to help build scalable Infrastructure Services for its massive cloud and on-device ecosystem. You will design, develop, and operate services enabling virtualized networks, compute, and storage at global scale.

Responsibilities include building scalable services, APIs, and telemetry with Go, C++, and Java, while leading cross-functional efforts and ensuring high availability in a complex multi-cloud environment.