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Distinguished Engineer – Quality Engineering & Performance, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple· Software Engineering / Quality & Performance
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Hybrid (San Diego, California; Cupertino, California)$249.4k - $374.3kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior technical authority to define and lead end-to-end Quality Engineering and Performance strategy for Apple’s Wallet, Payments & Commerce platform. Architects systemic reliability, scalability, resilience, and measurable engineering excellence across a regulated financial services ecosystem, influencing architecture, standards, and release governance at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term vision for Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Reliability, and Production Validation across WPC.
  • Architect systemic reliability frameworks spanning development, pre-production, and runtime environments.
  • Establish and govern SLO/SLA standards, latency budgets, scalability targets, and risk tolerance models.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to embed “quality by design” into distributed financial systems.
  • Partner with Architecture, Platform, Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, and Business teams to ensure systems meet user experience standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Mentor and grow senior technical leaders across global teams.

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in reliability engineering, large-scale automation systems, and performance engineering for distributed systems.
  • Experience defining SLO/SLA frameworks for mission-critical systems at massive scale.
  • Proven track record architecting resilience strategies across cloud-native environments (AWS or comparable platforms).
  • Experience working with regulated financial or high-trust systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence architectural direction across large, complex organizations.
  • Strong background in observability, telemetry systems, and production validation strategies.
  • Experience embedding AI/ML-driven validation or engineering productivity systems.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and engineering audiences.
  • Demonstrated success mentoring and elevating senior technical leaders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in payment systems, money movement, tokenization, or transaction processing.
  • Experience in testing global multi-region failover architectures.
  • Background in large-scale automated testing platforms (server, UI, API, distributed systems).
  • Familiarity with compliance-driven system design in financial ecosystems.
  • Experience evolving engineering culture toward measurable reliability and performance ownership.

Skills

Required:Reliability engineeringLarge-scale automationPerformance engineeringObservability & telemetrySLO/SLA frameworks
Nice to have:AI/ML in validation or productivity

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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