Senior Cloud Networking Reliability Engineer

Apple Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an experienced Network Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability strategy for Apple’s global network services.

You will lead architecture, implement fault‑tolerant cloud networking, and champion data‑driven improvements across multiple teams. You will define SLIs/SLOs, build automated resilience, and mentor engineers while collaborating with infrastructure, software, and operations groups to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available

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

• Define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and reliability strategy for large-scale cloud networking platforms spanning control plane and data plane systems.
• Architect and evolve fault‑tolerant, highly available network services, ensuring graceful degradation and consistent performance under partial and systemic failure scenarios.
• Establish platform‑wide resiliency patterns including service discovery, health checking, automated failover, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and traffic management across multi‑region and multi‑cloud environments.
• Lead the design of network configuration management, routing state distribution, traffic engineering, and capacity planning systems, balancing scalability, correctness, and operational simplicity.
• Serve as a senior technical authority and architectural reviewer, influencing critical design decisions across multiple teams and ensuring network failure modes are explicitly addressed.
• Build and champion automation‑first reliability solutions, including topology discovery, deployment safety mechanisms, self‑healing systems, and operational tooling that reduce toil and improve MTTR.
• Define and own reliability metrics and observability standards (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets), using data to drive engineering trade‑offs, reliability investments, and incident response improvements.
• Multiply impact through cross‑team technical leadership, embedding reliability early in design, mentoring engineers, and sharing deep technical knowledge through documentation and technical talks.

Job description

Apple Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an experienced Network Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability strategy for Apple’s global network services.

You will lead architecture, implement fault‑tolerant cloud networking, and champion data‑driven improvements across multiple teams. You will define SLIs/SLOs, build automated resilience, and mentor engineers while collaborating with infrastructure, software, and operations groups to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available