Apple is looking for a Software engineer/architect, with an appropriate balance of experience and interest in software development to join our Global Network Services (GNS) team supporting our backbone infrastructure around the globe.

Work closely with global team members to develop tools/solutions for our Engineering and Operations teams for continual improvement toward our key operational metrics of reliability/visibility and efficiency. This person will need to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment, collaborating closely with our network teams, as well as cross-functionally with external groups to deliver turn-key solutions to reach this goal!

The candidate will be part of the Backbone development team focusing on hyperscale Backbone networking. As a member you will design and develop new solutions and tools using open data plane hardwares for building highly scalable route/forwarding control system. These products defining the WAN software platform will be built drawing expertise from cross-disciplinary areas including large scale distributed systems, fault-tolerant systems, operating systems and high performance analytics. If you are passionate about innovating and building solutions from scratch for massive scale, then our team might be the right place for you!

As a network software architect, you will be working closely with the WAN network engineering and the operation team with the goal of defining, building and operationalization of the solution. Due to the nature of our customer, foundational network technology knowledge will be a key skill for the ideal candidate to possess.