Senior Network Reliability Engineer, Cloud & Global Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Network Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across Apple’s global networking platforms.

You will lead architecture for control/data plane systems, champion fault‑tolerance, and define SRE practices across multi‑region deployments. You will collaborate with IS&T Infrastructure Services, partner with engineering and operations, and push observability, automation, and scalable network solutions to ensure high availability and performance for

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.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

SDN

Cross-functional collaboration

Systems programming

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a Network Reliability Engineer to drive reliability across Apple’s global networking platforms.

You will lead architecture for control/data plane systems, champion fault‑tolerance, and define SRE practices across multi‑region deployments. You will collaborate with IS&T Infrastructure Services, partner with engineering and operations, and push observability, automation, and scalable network solutions to ensure high availability and performance for