Apple

Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple$150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of expertise in infrastructure engineering, including distributed data and cloud-native architecture.
  • Experience in designing large-scale distributed systems for millions of users.
  • Strong foundation in resilient cloud-native architectures, especially on AWS.
  • Expertise in data platform consistency, durability, and recovery for critical systems.
  • Experience in traffic management and load balancing for high-availability systems.
  • Proven track record of defining SLO and SLA frameworks for mission-critical systems.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision for core infrastructure across data services, cloud, and traffic engineering.
  • Influence system architecture and set standards for data durability and request integrity.
  • Shape cloud and edge utilization strategies for global operations.
  • Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed financial systems.
  • Drive alignment and architectural direction across complex organizational structures.
  • Communicate technical standards and strategies to executive and engineering teams.
  • Mentor and elevate technical talent within global teams.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence architecture before code development.
  • Work on systems storing critical financial data with integrity.
  • Drive cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies at a global scale.
  • Lead initiatives in a high-trust, regulated environment.
  • Engage in a first-principles engineering leadership role.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define and lead the technical vision for WPC's core infrastructure across three deeply connected domains: data services, cloud engineering, and traffic engineering. This is a platform-defining technical authority role responsible for the systems that store financial data with integrity, run securely and elastically across cloud and hybrid environments, and route every request reliably at global scale. This is not an operations management role. It is a first-principles engineering leadership role reporting to the head of Infrastructure Engineering.

Description

As a Distinguished Engineer for Infrastructure, you will define how Apple's financial services are stored, served, scaled, and routed. You will influence architecture before code is written, set the standards that govern data durability and request integrity, and shape how WPC consumes cloud and edge capacity worldwide.

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

15+ years of experience across engineering including distributed data systems, cloud-native architecture, and traffic or networking systems at massive scale.Experience in payment systems, money movement, tokenization, or high volume transaction processing.

Experience operating active-active or multi-region failover architectures for financial or high-trust workloads.

Background in service mesh, API gateways, CDN, or edge infrastructure at global scale.

Experience with streaming data platforms, change data capture, or large-scale data reconciliation.

Familiarity with compliance-driven infrastructure design in financial ecosystems.

Experience evolving engineering culture toward measurable reliability, performance, and cost ownership.

Experience building or evolving shared infrastructure platforms that serve multiple products or business units.

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.

Apple Careers

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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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