Cloud Network Release Engineer

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.\\n\\nAs 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!\\n\\nPeople 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. \\n\\nThe 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. \\n

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.\n\nAdditionally, 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.\n

Experience in designing and operationalizing large scale release (CI/CD, Chaos & Scale) testing platforms\n\nSolid understanding of cloud-native networking components: VPCs, peering, transit gateways, service meshes, NATs, firewalls, etc\n\nGood knowledge of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc)\n\nIn depth knowledge of K8s, OpenStack, system virtualization, build systems and infrastructure as code\n\nOutstanding communication skills with the ability to articulate concepts, designs and decisions.\n

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience\n