Senior Cloud Engineer (Wallet, Payments and Commerce)

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could accomplish. Apple Pay is transforming the industry in payments transit and identity and were aggressively focusing on the customers digital wallet experience. Our scale and security demands create unique opportunities for innovative and creative solutions which contribute to millions of customers daily interactions.

The Wallet Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to take ownership of complex ambiguous problems and drive cross-functional solutions that scale with our this role youll independently lead significant pieces of our cloud platform set technical direction on project teams and raise the bar on quality security and customer focus across the organization.n

Own the design and delivery of platform capabilities end-to-end from gathering requirements with product and partner teams to running them in technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives framing trade-offs and aligning engineering security quality and SRE partners around shared and evolve our platform-as-a-product offerings treating internal developers as first-class customers and reducing the friction between idea and the design and rollout of Infrastructure build pipelines and CI/CD releases in a platform-as-a-product complex problems using a mix of open-source and in-house tooling balancing pragmatism with the long-term health of the existing technologies and introduce new ones to outpace growth projections and shepherd them from experiment to production-grade the team in cross-organization initiatives partnering with adjacent platform security and developer teams to keep our technical strategy next-generation cloud and DevOps practices building the credibility and shared understanding needed to bring them to fruition across WPC.

8 years of Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience with a track record of owning systems end-to-end in building platforms Microservices and distributed systems Experience building APIs on Kubernetes using frameworks such as gRPC or and Containers Been there done that and now youre the person others come to when the cluster is on fire. Youve owned multi-tenant multi-cluster multi-region footprints as Code with deep Crossplane and Terraform experience Youve designed composition and provider patterns at scale not just consumed them. The console is for cloud expertise You know which services to use when to use them and just as importantly when not and CI/CD with Flux Jenkins Kargo Everything ships through pipelines promotion is declarative and rollback is a networking fundamentals (NATs TCP/IP DNS load balancing mTLS). Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting When the symptom is its slow sometimes you know how to find the actual with Observability stacks (Prometheus Thanos Grafana Datadog).

10 years of work experience is highly programming proficiency in Golang and Kuberentes Operator patternnPublic Cloud expertise in AWS or AliCloudnExperience with service meshes (Istio Ambient mode Cilium) nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers drive technical direction across a project team and align solutions with business objectives in ambiguous cross-functional environments and engage with senior Degree in Computer Science or a related field