Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define and lead the technical vision for WPCs 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.

As a Distinguished Engineer for Infrastructure you will define how Apples 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.n

Define and govern WPCs transactional and analytical data platforms setting standards for integrity consistency replication backup/recovery and lifecycle management to meet financial and regulatory WPCs cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure across AWS and comparable platforms establishing patterns for resilience scalability cost-efficiency and security while leading large-scale modernization 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 chaos engineering disaster recovery and design-time reliability practices and define SLO/SLA standards and error budgets for financial-grade end-to-end observability standards across the infrastructure stack and define measurable health indicators and engineering 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.

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

15 years of experience across engineering including distributed data systems cloud-native architecture and traffic or networking systems at massive in payment systems money movement tokenization or high volume transaction operating active-active or multi-region failover architectures for financial or high-trust in service mesh API gateways CDN or edge infrastructure at global with streaming data platforms change data capture or large-scale data with compliance-driven infrastructure design in financial evolving engineering culture toward measurable reliability performance and cost building or evolving shared infrastructure platforms that serve multiple products or business units.