Senior Cloud Network Engineer – Hyperscale & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Education reimbursement

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a senior network architect to own the framework for modeling deployment scale and reliability across Apple's hyperscale cloud network, spanning VPCs, routes, gateways, and transit, balancing performance, cost, and risk.

You will drive long-term strategic tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and present to executive stakeholders, shaping architecture and investment decisions across the Cloud Network org.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in network engineering, with substantial experience operating large-scale networks in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Experience owning production availability and driving incident response for business-critical infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of core networking concepts (BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN) and cloud-native networking (Kubernetes CNI, service mesh, overlay networks).
• Experience leading cross-functional or cross-team technical projects from design through execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate risk, reliability trade-offs, and operational priorities to both engineering teams and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the framework for modeling deployment scale and complexity across the cloud network (VPCs, subnets, routes, gateways, peering, transit), forecasting and stress-testing against architectural limits.
• Identify emerging complexity and scale risks 12-24+ months ahead of impact, shaping roadmaps to address them before they materialize.
• Serve as the org's principal authority on availability and reliability, defining SLO frameworks grounded in real user/service impact.
• Lead the most complex, cross-cutting reliability initiatives end-to-end, driving systemic architectural fixes (not one-off patches) from incidents and postmortems.
• Establish org-wide standards for availability engineering, blast-radius reduction, and failure-domain isolation.
• Serve as the senior technical representative of Cloud Network in major infrastructure-wide initiatives, building trust with senior leaders and engineering peers to align competing priorities.
• Articulate complex tradeoffs and long-term technical strategy to executive/cross-functional audiences, shaping company-level decisions where cloud network architecture is critical.
• Set architectural standards adopted org-wide, mentor senior/staff engineers, and act as the escalation point for the highest-severity or highest-ambiguity production problems.
• Stay current with industry trends in cloud networking and bring relevant innovations back to the team.

Skills

Cloud networking

BGP

DNS

VPCs

SDN

Kubernetes CNI

Service mesh

Load balancing

Incidence response

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a senior network architect to own the framework for modeling deployment scale and reliability across Apple's hyperscale cloud network, spanning VPCs, routes, gateways, and transit, balancing performance, cost, and risk.

You will drive long-term strategic tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and present to executive stakeholders, shaping architecture and investment decisions across the Cloud Network org.