Senior Cloud Engineer

Apple•Austin, TX

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.
Track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.
Experience building platforms and platform-as-a-product.
Experience with Kubernetes and Containers.
Experience owning multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region footprints end-to-end.
Infrastructure as Code, with deep Crossplane and Terraform experience.
Security-first architecture with Policy as Code (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper).
Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
GitOps and CI/CD with Flux, Jenkins, Kargo.
Strong networking fundamentals (NATs, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, mTLS).
Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting.
Microservices and distributed systems experience.
Experience with service meshes (Istio, Traefik, LinkerD).
Experience with 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.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

You think about internal developers as customers, and you've shipped paved roads that people actually want to use.
You've designed composition and provider patterns at scale, not just consumed them.
The console is for read-only.
You bake guardrails into the platform so the secure path is the easy path, and you can defend your trade-offs to security partners.
You know which services to use, when to use them, and — just as importantly — when not to.
Everything ships through pipelines, promotion is declarative, and rollback is a non-event.
You can debug a cross-region connectivity issue without flinching.
When the symptom is "it's slow sometimes," you know how to find the actual cause.
You've designed for failure, not just success.

Responsibilities

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.
Own systems end-to-end in production.
Build platforms and platform-as-a-product.
Own multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region footprints end-to-end.
Design composition and provider patterns at scale.
Bake guardrails into the platform so the secure path is the easy path.
Defend trade-offs to security partners.
Debug a cross-region connectivity issue without flinching.
Find the actual cause when the symptom is 'it's slow sometimes'.
Design for failure, not just success.
Mentor engineers.
Drive technical direction across a project team.
Align solutions with business objectives in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.