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Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple· Infrastructure Engineering
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Cupertino, CA$262.5k - $394kpermanent full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior technical authority responsible for defining and leading the vision for Wallet, Payments & Commerce (WPC) core infrastructure across data services, cloud engineering, and traffic engineering. Focus areas include data platforms, cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure, global traffic management, reliability practices, observability, and mentoring senior engineers. Drives architecture standards, regulatory compliance, and cross-team alignment at Apple-scale.

Responsibilities

  • Define and govern WPC's transactional and analytical data platforms, setting standards for integrity, consistency, replication, backup/recovery, and lifecycle management to meet financial and regulatory requirements.
  • Architect WPC's cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure across AWS and comparable platforms, establishing patterns for resilience, scalability, cost-efficiency, and security while leading large-scale modernization initiatives.
  • Design global traffic management architecture, including load balancing, routing, and failover, and define capacity, rate limiting, and resilience strategies to maintain payment availability under peak and adverse conditions.
  • Champion chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and design-time reliability practices, and define SLO/SLA standards and error budgets for financial-grade infrastructure.
  • Set end-to-end observability standards across the infrastructure stack and define measurable health indicators and engineering scorecards.
  • Serve as the senior technical authority for infrastructure, driving alignment across engineering teams, identifying opportunities to leverage Apple-wide capabilities, and mentoring Principal and Senior Engineers.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of deep expertise across infrastructure engineering, including distributed data systems, cloud-native architecture, and traffic or networking systems at massive scale.
  • Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users or high-volume transactions.
  • Strong foundation in cloud-native and hybrid architectures designed for scalability and resilience, with hands-on experience on AWS or comparable platforms.
  • Demonstrated expertise in data platforms, including consistency, durability, replication, and recovery for systems where correctness is critical.
  • Experience designing traffic management, load balancing, routing, or edge delivery for high-availability, multi-region systems.
  • Experience defining SLO and SLA frameworks and resilience strategies for mission-critical systems.
  • Track record of technical leadership, driving alignment and architectural direction across large, complex organizations.
  • Experience working with or building regulated or high-trust systems and understanding compliance implications.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and engineering audiences alike.
  • Demonstrated success mentoring and elevating technical talent across global teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed data systemsCloud-native and hybrid architecturesTraffic management / load balancing / routingSLO/SLA frameworks and resilience strategiesObservability and health metricsRegulated/high-trust systems

Benefits

  • Apple benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, education expense reimbursement, discretionary bonuses or commission potential, relocation eligibility, and stock programs (RSUs, Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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