Sr. Software Release Engineer, Infrastructure Services

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

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless. Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here. Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.

Description

As a senior release engineer with deep expertise in cloud networking, software reliability, and performance engineering, you will lead and innovate our release management processes. This role requires strategic oversight of sophisticated, large-scale release pipelines that deliver highly available, resilient, and performant cloud network services.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience designing and operationalizing 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 K8s, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field