Job Details

Site Reliability Engineer - Payments

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jul 11, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200612679

Are you passionate, curious, and do you have a desire to learn and explore? Can you communicate ideas clearly, thoughtfully and respectfully, to a diverse audience? Do you have a good grasp of computer science fundamentals, and a sound understanding of concurrent and asynchronous processing? The people here at Apple don’t just craft products, they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries! We believe that it’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourage the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading privacy and environmental efforts. We’re looking for talented Developers and Site Reliability Engineers to join the Wallet, Payments & Commerce (WPC) Engineering Operations team.

The WPC organization is responsible for everything in the Apple Wallet, and all things Payments, at Apple. We build the “rails” on which all payments at Apple run, including for the Apple Online Store, the Apple Retail Stores around the world, and the Apple App Store. We also build the rails that make Tap to Pay on iPhone possible, by allowing iPhones to become a payment terminal, and by helping Tap to Pay on iPhone partners to process payments from iPhones.

Description

Engineering Operations engineers take part in every aspect of the software development lifecycle. We work in a fast-paced environment, and are responsible for everything from the underlying AWS infrastructure services, to control plane considerations, as well as high-availability and robust application deployment designs. We conduct constructive design discussions, learn from each other, and use our experience to guide and teach. We work closely with Privacy and Security engineering teams to ensure that the products we build go above and beyond on both fronts. We also partner closely with quality and testing teams, and understand that their success is ours as well. We have standardized on Kotlin and built our distributed architecture only on AWS services. Workflow orchestration, familiarity with multiple implementations of data stores, telemetry implementations, alerting and availability infrastructure are all fundamentals that are required for this role.

Minimum Qualifications

• Production Experience in operationalizing large scale distributed, fault-tolerant, multi-tenant services

• 10 or more years of experience in presenting with AWS Services, including but not limited to

• EC2, S3, EKS, DynamoDB, EBS

• Cloud formation, Lambda, VPC, Route 53

• Bring at least 10 years experience operating in core SDLC CI/CD processes, along with SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management.

• Worked within DevOps operating model, data analytics, various models and application of AI/ML in this space.

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent field

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer certifications

• Launched and operated commercial products and services based on AWS

• Published papers or led talks featuring leading multi-functional projects

• specific instances or examples in the FinTech space is a bonus

• Experienced cross-dependency of large numbers of diverse systems that are both interactive and batch-oriented

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