Cloud Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Role Number: 200620399-3401

Summary

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.

We're looking for a Principal-level engineer to own and run a critical slice of our hyperscale cloud network as if it were their own business. This is a global network spanning massive scale, deep complexity, and constant evolution and it needs someone who doesn't just design for it, but takes end-to-end accountability for its health, growth, and future.

Description

Every day, our hyperscale Apple Cloud network moves traffic across a footprint of VPCs, subnets, gateways, and transit architectures that span the globe, powering services relied on by millions. At this scale, small decisions compound quickly, and the difference between a good architecture and a great one shows up in resilience during failure, efficiency under load, and how gracefully the system absorbs growth. You'll be the person closest to that reality, thinking not just in terms of uptime and design reviews, but in terms of risk, cost, and long-term strategic tradeoffs, the way a business owner would. This role sits at the intersection of network engineering, distributed systems, and compute infrastructure. You'll bring deep technical fluency across all three domains, but just as importantly, the judgment and business instincts to know where to invest engineering effort for maximum impact. You'll operate like an owner: someone who sees a problem, doesn't wait to be asked, and drives it to resolution because it's the right thing for the business, not because it's in the job description. If you get energy from taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems and turning them into clear technical strategy, and if you want the kind of ownership usually reserved for founders, applied at hyperscale, this is the role for you.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in network engineering, with substantial experience operating large-scale networks in cloud or hybrid environments

Demonstrated experience owning production availability and driving incident response for business-critical infrastructure

Strong hands-on knowledge of core networking concepts (BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN) and cloud-native networking (Kubernetes CNI, service mesh, overlay networks)

Experience leading cross-functional or cross-team technical projects from design through execution

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate risk, reliability trade-offs, and operational priorities to both engineering teams and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating at architect level with a track record of technical leadership beyond your immediate team

Background spanning both network and compute infrastructure domains

Experience building and tracking SLOs/error budgets and driving org-wide reliability programs

History of pitching new technical initiatives and securing organizational investment or buy-in

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.