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Senior Cloud Infrastructure and AI Efficiency Engineer

Apple· Cloud Infrastructure Business Operations
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Hybrid (Cupertino, California), Hybrid (Austin, Texas), Hybrid (San Francisco, California), Hybrid (Seattle, Washington)$184.7k - $324.8kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Engineer role focused on building data-driven insights to plan, strategize, and optimize Apple’s cloud resources, data centers, and AI workflows across multi-cloud and private cloud environments; drive AI-enabled optimization, cost efficiency, and scalable infrastructure decisions with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Build insights into cloud services: architecture, cost, utilization at Apple scale and collaborate on efficiency with service teams like iCloud, Music, Siri, or Apple TV+.
  • Work in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment across Apple’s private cloud services and public cloud providers spanning traditional compute, storage, AI training clusters, and inference serving at scale.
  • Unlock career growth beyond any single platform.
  • Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to translate complex, high-dimensional infrastructure data into clear business metrics for strategic recommendations that drive measurable financial and operational value for the infrastructure business.
  • Help build services that see privacy as a fundamental right and protect user data at all cost.
  • Be a force multiplier for engineering teams.
  • Go beyond reports and dashboards — use AI to deliver proactive, contextual insights and recommendations rooted in engineering best practices that helps engineering teams make better architectural decisions faster, at every stage of the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. We value what you can do, not just where you studied.
  • The mindset and ability to work with large data and understand the observability and statistics space specifically.
  • Believes the rules of cloud efficiency are being rewritten — has experience with foundation models, agentic AI, and AI-native workflows, and inspired about how they change the way infrastructure is architected, measured, and optimized.
  • Stays close to the frontier, brings ideas back to the team, and shapes how Apple gets ahead of the shift rather than reacts to it.
  • 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing infrastructure across public and private cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or equivalent on-premise), with a strong intuition for how architectural decisions translate into cost and performance outcomes at scale.
  • Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) — including security, cost optimization, and governance best practices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
  • Experience designing and deploying scalable, cloud-native architectures with a strong foundation in distributed systems, reliability, and fault-tolerant design.
  • Hands-on experience with FinOps and cost optimization — using tools like Cloudability or CloudHealth, and applying AI-assisted analysis to surface savings opportunities, model tradeoffs, and drive accountability across engineering teams.
  • Strong analytical foundation — proficient in trending, variance analysis, and forecasting, with the ability to build and communicate AI-augmented models that inform capacity planning and financial strategy.
  • Deep familiarity with Kubernetes — including optimization strategies for resource efficiency, bin packing, autoscaling, and cost-aware scheduling in multi-tenant and dedicated cluster environments.
  • Experience with cloud observability and telemetry tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Datadog, Honeycomb) — able to connect signals from infrastructure health, performance, and cost into a coherent operational picture.
  • Experience building Finance or FinOps subject areas from the ground up — including unit economics, chargeback models, and the data pipelines and taxonomies that make cost attribution meaningful at scale.
  • Clear, compelling communicator — able to translate complex technical and financial narratives into crisp insights for both engineering and executive audiences, in writing and in the room.
  • Informed perspective on the AI landscape — follows the evolution of foundation models, emerging tooling, and industry adoption patterns closely enough to help shape how Apple prioritizes and invests in AI capabilities across its cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Required:SQL (hands-on)Compute containerization and orchestrationAI/ML and foundation models awareness

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses—including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation possible
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSUs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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