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# Sr. Software Release Engineer, Infrastructure Services

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Networks, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Protocol Buffers, Monitoring of Systems, Hardware Virtualization, OSI Models, JSON, OpenStack, Peering, Release Management, Software Engineering, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Logging, Reliability of Systems, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Build Tools, Api Design, Restful APIs
- **Published:** August 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.sanfranciscogigs.com/job.asp?id=3354596190&tx=IT8174TYZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Experience designing and operationalizing large-scale release (CI/CD, Chaos & Scale) testing platforms
 * Solid understanding of cloud-native networking components: VPCs, peering, transit gateways, service meshes, NATs, firewalls, etc.
 * Expert knowledge of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc.)
 * In-depth knowledge of K8s, OpenStack, system virtualization, build systems, and infrastructure as code
 * Outstanding communication skills with the ability to articulate concepts, designs, and decisions
 * Strong knowledge of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and qualification engineering
 * Broad knowledge of networking solutions across OSI layers 3 through 7

Preferred Qualifications

 * 10+ years of relevant industry experience
 * Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

## Description

As a senior release engineer with deep expertise in cloud networking, software reliability, and performance engineering, you will lead and innovate our release management processes. This role requires strategic oversight of sophisticated, large-scale release pipelines that deliver highly available, resilient, and performant cloud network services.


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