Cloud Network Release Engineer

Apple

49d

About The Position

As a part of the Apple Cloud Network team, you will strategize, build and operationalize innovative release and testing products and solutions that will craft the future of our hyper-scale network infrastructure. We are looking for candidates who have a strong passion in building sophisticated large scale systems for high performance and reliability with broad experience in distributed systems architecture and networking! People at Apple don't just build products — they craft the kind of experience that has revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas encourage innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Cloud Networking team builds software-defined network infrastructure as a part of Apple Cloud. Our infrastructure is a critical foundation in delivering Apple's services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, Maps) to billions of customers. We are a fast paced organization where drive and collaboration are the keys to success. Teams across Apple rely critically on us for infrastructure that help them build services that scale globally, are highly available, and “just work”. We listen to different perspectives, help surface innovative ideas, and drive decisions that move us forward. 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. You will establish standard methodologies, implement resiliency measures like chaos testing, drive performance and capacity planning, lead incident response, postmortems, and maintain detailed release documentation. Partner closely with multi-functional teams including cloud architects, SREs, and network engineering to ensure quality in deployment automation and operational reliability. Additionally, you will present and defend engineering proposals that can significantly influence team and organizational success. Effective collaboration and communication with other teams are crucial to support their use of our platform.

Requirements

Experience in 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
Good 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.

Nice To Haves

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Responsibilities

Lead and innovate release management processes
Strategic oversight of sophisticated, large-scale release pipelines
Establish standard methodologies
Implement resiliency measures like chaos testing
Drive performance and capacity planning
Lead incident response and postmortems
Maintain detailed release documentation
Partner closely with multi-functional teams
Present and defend engineering proposals

Benefits

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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