Apple

CDN Solutions Engineer

Apple$130K — $155K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience with Content Delivery Networks including caching, routing, and TLS configurations.
  • 4+ years of production software development experience, particularly in Python, Go, or Node.js.
  • Proven troubleshooting skills for HTTP and DNS issues in live environments.
  • Experience analyzing logs and metrics for issue resolution under time constraints.
  • Familiarity with CDN configuration languages like VCL, Lua, or EdgeWorkers.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with diverse engineering teams to design and implement tailored CDN solutions.
  • Troubleshoot latency and availability issues by pulling logs and analyzing metrics.
  • Run DNS and HTTP diagnostics to resolve technical challenges effectively.
  • Identify gaps in processes and build tools to enhance team productivity.
  • Adapt to new technologies and challenges with each engagement.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working schedule with 3 days in-office and 2 days remote.
  • Opportunity to work in a self-directed and experienced team environment.
  • Access to a wealth of expertise from senior engineers in the CDN space.
Full Job Description
Apple Media Products seeks a CDN Solutions Engineer to join the Content Delivery Network Solutions team in Cupertino, California. This role is for an experienced, self-directed engineer who can independently identify problems, build solutions, and work directly with engineering teams across Apple - without waiting to be told what needs doing.

Description

As a CDN Solutions Engineer, you'll work directly with engineering teams across Apple - marketing, software engineering, AI/ML, IT, and more - to design and implement CDN solutions tailored to their needs. When issues arise, you'll troubleshoot: pulling logs, analyzing metrics, running DNS and HTTP diagnostics, and working with customers to resolve latency and availability problems. You'll also identify and build tools that make the team's work faster, more consistent, and less manual - this is a role where you're expected to notice what's missing, not just execute what's assigned.

Every engagement brings a different system, a different set of challenges, and often a new technology to get up to speed on. When Apple launches something new, there's usually a CDN solution that needs to exist before it can go live - the work is rarely visible to the end user, but it's foundational to making both new and existing products work at scale. It's a role that keeps you close to what Apple is building broadly, not just your own corner of it.

The team itself is a tight, experienced group - most engineers have been working in the CDN space for over a decade. The team is self-directed and runs lean on process; there's no backlog of pre-scoped tickets waiting for you. What stays constant is the depth of expertise around you and the expectation that you'll bring your own. The team spans across multiple time zones operating as a single group - which means you're rarely far from someone who's seen the problem before.

Apple operates on a hybrid schedule - currently 3 days in office, 2 days remote.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years working with Content Delivery Networks - caching, routing, origin configuration, headers, and TLS

4+ years of production software development in Python, Go, or Node.js

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot HTTP and DNS issues in live production environments

Experience analyzing logs and metrics to root-cause issues under time pressure

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with CDN configuration languages - VCL (Varnish/Fastly), Lua (nginx/OpenResty), or EdgeWorkers/Node

Experience with multiple CDN vendors (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, etc.)

Familiarity with observability tooling - Grafana, Splunk, or similar

Comfort in a polyglot codebase (Python, Node, Go, PHP)

Golang development experience

Strong written and verbal communication skills

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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