Apple

Cloud Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in network engineering with experience in large-scale cloud or hybrid environments.
  • Proven record in ensuring production availability and managing incident responses.
  • Hands-on expertise in core networking (BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN) and cloud-native systems (Kubernetes CNI, service mesh).
  • Ability to lead cross-team technical projects from conception to execution.
  • Strong communication skills to discuss risks and operational needs with technical and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and resolve ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems.
  • Develop and implement clear technical strategies for the network architecture.
  • Ensure production system reliability and drive incident management processes.
  • Lead cross-functional projects that address key technical initiatives.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs and operational priorities effectively.

Benefits

  • Work in a privately owned hyperscale environment, providing significant ownership in projects.
  • Opportunity to engage with senior leadership and influence infrastructure decisions.
  • Contribute to mission-critical services affecting millions worldwide.
Full Job Description
Description

Every day, our hyperscale Apple Cloud network moves traffic across a footprint of VPCs, subnets, gateways, and transit architectures that span the globe, powering services relied on by millions. At this scale, small decisions compound quickly, and the difference between a good architecture and a great one shows up in resilience during failure, efficiency under load, and how gracefully the system absorbs growth. You'll be the person closest to that reality, thinking not just in terms of uptime and design reviews, but in terms of risk, cost, and long-term strategic tradeoffs, the way a business owner would.

This role sits at the intersection of network engineering, distributed systems, and compute infrastructure. You'll bring deep technical fluency across all three domains, but just as importantly, the judgment and business instincts to know where to invest engineering effort for maximum impact. You'll operate like an owner: someone who sees a problem, doesn't wait to be asked, and drives it to resolution because it's the right thing for the business, not because it's in the job description.

If you get energy from taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems and turning them into clear technical strategy, and if you want the kind of ownership usually reserved for founders, applied at hyperscale, this is the role for you.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in network engineering, with substantial experience operating large-scale networks in cloud or hybrid environments

Demonstrated experience owning production availability and driving incident response for business-critical infrastructure

Strong hands-on knowledge of core networking concepts (BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, SDN) and cloud-native networking (Kubernetes CNI, service mesh, overlay networks)

Experience leading cross-functional or cross-team technical projects from design through execution

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate risk, reliability trade-offs, and operational priorities to both engineering teams and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating at architect level with a track record of technical leadership beyond your immediate team

Background spanning both network and compute infrastructure domains

Experience building and tracking SLOs/error budgets and driving org-wide reliability programs

History of pitching new technical initiatives and securing organizational investment or buy-in

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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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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