Senior Cloud Engineer (Wallet, Payments and Commerce)

Apple • Austin, TX

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About The Position

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 growth. In this role you'll 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience, with a track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.
• Experience building platforms and platform-as-a-product.
• Kubernetes and Containers experience, including owning multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region footprints end-to-end.
• Infrastructure as Code, with deep Crossplane and Terraform experience, including designing composition and provider patterns at scale.
• Security-first architecture with Policy as Code (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper) experience.
• Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• GitOps and CI/CD with Flux, Jenkins, Kargo experience.
• Strong networking fundamentals (NATs, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, mTLS).
• Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting experience.
• Microservices and distributed systems experience, including designing for failure.
• Experience with service meshes (Istio, Traefik, LinkerD) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, drive technical direction across a project team, and align solutions with business objectives in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drive cross-functional solutions that scale with our growth.
• Independently lead significant pieces of our cloud platform.
• Set technical direction on project teams.
• Raise the bar on quality, security, and customer focus across the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior