Senior Cloud Release Engineer - Networking & Reliability

Socket.dev; Reno Junction (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple IS&T Infrastructure Services is seeking a senior release engineer with deep expertise in cloud networking, software reliability, and performance engineering to lead and innovate our release management

processes. You will oversee large-scale pipelines that deliver highly available, resilient services and collaborate across teams to maintain secure, scalable infrastructure for global operations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale release (CI/CD, Chaos & Scale) testing platforms.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native networking components: VPCs, peering, transit gateways, service meshes, NATs, firewalls, etc.
• Expert knowledge of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenStack, system virtualization, build systems, and infrastructure as code.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to articulate concepts, designs, and decisions.
• Strong knowledge of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and qualification engineering.
• Broad knowledge of networking solutions across OSI layers 3 through 7.

Responsibilities

• Lead and innovate release management processes for large-scale, highly available cloud network services.
• Provide strategic oversight of sophisticated release pipelines delivering resilient, performant systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security, reliability, and scale of enterprise platforms.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud networking

Kubernetes

Observability

Communication

Infrastructure as code

Software reliability

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

OpenStack

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Apple IS&T Infrastructure Services is seeking a senior release engineer with deep expertise in cloud networking, software reliability, and performance engineering to lead and innovate our release management

processes. You will oversee large-scale pipelines that deliver highly available, resilient services and collaborate across teams to maintain secure, scalable infrastructure for global operations.