Senior Network Engineer - Global Backbone & Automation

Apple, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 145,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Apple stock programs

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, test, and deploy Apple’s global backbone.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work qualifying NOS and network platforms, and developing automation tools to improve test coverage and efficiency. You will collaborate with software engineers, network architects, deployment and operations teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal performance across the backbone, with competitive compensation and

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of LAN/WAN technologies and protocols.
• Experience testing network devices and NOS, with hands-on lab practice.
• Hands-on experience with carrier-grade networks from Cisco/Arista/Juniper.

Responsibilities

• Test Case Development and Scalability: Build, maintain, and enhance network test cases and test procedures that scale across diverse network environments, network roles, and vendor platforms.
• End-to-End Test Planning: Design end-to-end test scenarios and develop structured test plans to reproduce production issues, edge cases, degraded network conditions, and failure scenarios across the network infrastructure.
• Test Automation and Tooling: Identify repetitive manual workflows suitable for automation and develop tools and scripts for network device control, testbed setup, performance measurement, data collection, and automated test execution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software engineers, network architects, deployment teams, and operations teams to understand network behavior, improve test coverage, identify validation gaps, and ensure network reliability.
• Failure Emulation and Troubleshooting: Reproduce production network failures in controlled test environments, isolate issues, collect logs and telemetry data, and provide detailed reproduction procedures to support engineering investigations and root cause analysis.
• Test Coverage and Validation Improvements: Identify gaps in existing test suites and expand validation coverage for network functionality, reliability, resiliency, performance, and failure recovery.
• Issue Analysis and Documentation: Document test results, failure symptoms, reproduction steps, and diagnostic findings to help engineering teams troubleshoot issues and implement corrective actions.

Skills

LAN/WAN technologies

TCP/IP/IS-IS/BGP/MPLS

Test case development

Test automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Cisco devices

Arista devices

Juniper devices

Job description

Apple, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, test, and deploy Apple’s global backbone.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work qualifying NOS and network platforms, and developing automation tools to improve test coverage and efficiency. You will collaborate with software engineers, network architects, deployment and operations teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal performance across the backbone, with competitive compensation and