Cloud Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services

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.

Responsibilities:

Own the framework for modeling deployment scale and complexity across the cloud network (VPCs, subnets, routes, gateways, peering, transit), forecasting and stress-testing against architectural limits.

Identify emerging complexity and scale risks 12-24+ months ahead of impact, shaping roadmaps to address them before they materialize.

Serve as the org's principal authority on availability and reliability, defining SLO frameworks grounded in real user/service impact.

Lead the most complex, cross-cutting reliability initiatives end-to-end, driving systemic architectural fixes (not one-off patches) from incidents and postmortems.

Establish org-wide standards for availability engineering, blast-radius reduction, and failure-domain isolation.

Serve as the senior technical representative of Cloud Network in major infrastructure-wide initiatives, building trust with senior leaders and engineering peers to align competing priorities.

Articulate complex tradeoffs and long-term technical strategy to executive/cross-functional audiences, shaping company-level decisions where cloud network architecture is critical.

Set architectural standards adopted org-wide, mentor senior/staff engineers, and act as the escalation point for the highest-severity or highest-ambiguity production problems.

Stay current with industry trends in cloud networking and bring relevant innovations back to the team.

Preferred Qualifications

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