Senior Cloud Engineer

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Apple Pay is transforming the industry in payments, transit and identity, and we're aggressively focusing on the customer's digital wallet experience. Our scale and security demands create unique opportunities for innovative and creative solutions which contribute to millions of customer's daily interactions.

Description The Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to take ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drive cross-functional solutions that scale with our growth.

In this role you'll independently lead significant pieces of our cloud platform, set technical direction on project teams, and raise the bar on quality, security, and customer focus across the organization.

Responsibilities

Own the design and delivery of platform capabilities end-to-end - from gathering requirements with product and partner teams to running them in production. Drive technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives, framing trade-offs and aligning engineering, security, quality, and SRE partners around shared outcomes.

Architect and evolve our platform-as-a-product offerings, treating internal developers as first-class customers and reducing the friction between idea and production. Lead the design and rollout of security-first patterns and policy-as-code controls (Kyverno, OPA) so the platform makes the secure path the easy path.

Solve complex problems using a mix of open-source and in-house tooling, balancing pragmatism with the long-term health of the platform. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design partnership, and targeted coaching on complex assignments.

Scale existing technologies and introduce new ones to outpace growth projections, and sheph