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# Sr. Software Release Engineer, Infrastructure Services

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Emeryville, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,700.0
- **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, Deployment Automation, Build Tools, Api Design, Restful APIs
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/sr-software-release-engineer-infrastructure-services

## About the Role

10+ years of relevant industry experience

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Minimum Qualifications

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

## 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., You will establish standard methodologies, implement resiliency measures like chaos testing, drive performance and capacity planning, lead incident response and postmortems, and maintain detailed release documentation.

You'll partner closely with multi-functional teams including cloud architects, SREs, and network engineering to ensure quality in deployment automation and operational reliability.

Additionally, you will present and defend engineering proposals that can significantly influence team and organizational success.

Effective collaboration and communication with other teams are crucial to support their use of our platform.


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