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Apple · Austin, TX · Mid Level · Manufacturing and hardware engineering · posted yesterday
Apple · Austin, TX · posted 19 days ago
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| Employer | Apple |
|---|---|
| Location | Austin, Texas |
| Field | Technology › Cloud, IT and infrastructure |
| Level | Senior Level |
| Source category | Software Engineering |
| Posted | 2026-10-20 (19 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | On-site at the location listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations - managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question
As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be part of a team focused on enabling experiences for Apple employees and customers. Our team works across Apple to ensure the network provides secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity for Retail and Enterprise while enabling business capabilities.
In this role, you will translate business and operational requirements into engineered network solutions for Apple's global Retail Stores and Enterprise environments. You will evaluate and qualify networking technologies, develop implementation-ready designs, validate solutions through lab and field testing, and establish the technical standards needed to deploy them globally.
You will collaborate with network architects, engineering teams, operations organizations, security partners, business owners, vendors, and senior leadership. The successful candidate combines deep networking expertise with excellent judgment, structured problem-solving, and the ability to clearly communicate complex technical decisions to both technical and executive audiences.
Description
This is a senior engineering role with broad scope and deep technical responsibility. You will take strategic direction, business use cases, and high-level architecture and convert them into solutions that can be qualified, standardized, deployed, operated, and supported at scale.
You will explore emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluate networking hardware and software, and build technical solutions and frameworks that address Apple's unique Retail and Enterprise requirements. You will lead network equipment qualification from requirements and test-plan development through lab validation, pilot deployment, certification, documentation, and production readiness.
The role requires an understanding of how network services directly affect the employee and customer experience. You will balance performance, availability, security, operational simplicity, lifecycle, supportability, cost, and scalability when making engineering recommendations. You will also serve as a trusted technical partner to senior leaders and stakeholders, helping teams understand tradeoffs, resolve technical challenges, and make well-informed decisions.
The scope and scale of the environment create an opportunity to engineer network solutions that make a meaningful impact across Apple.
Responsibilities:
Understand business priorities, operational challenges, and technology strategies across Retail and Enterprise environments.
Partner with business owners, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Operations to translate business and experience needs into technical requirements and measurable success criteria.
Develop secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable wired, wireless, WAN, remote-access, and network-security solutions.
Convert architectural direction into detailed designs, configurations, bills of material, implementation plans, and operational acceptance criteria.
Evaluate solution alternatives and communicate tradeoffs involving performance, availability, security, complexity, cost, lifecycle, and supportability.
Establish reusable engineering standards and design patterns that enable consistent global network deployments.
Develop qualification strategies and perform functional, performance, scale, resiliency, security, interoperability, upgrade, and regression testing.
Evaluate and validate network hardware and software for Retail Stores, campuses, offices, dev properties, and critical infrastructure environments.
Document test results, defects, limitations, and risks; work with vendors and internal teams to drive remediation.
Lead pilots, deployments, migrations, and upgrades while ensuring solutions are operationally ready for production.
Produce approved standards, deployment guidance, operational runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and drive decisions.
Present technical proposals, qualification findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Provide senior technical leadership, mentorship, incident escalation, and root-cause analysis across engineering and operations teams.
Evaluate emerging technologies and advise management on industry trends, infrastructure risks, roadmaps, and investment decisions.
Use telemetry, incident trends, and operational feedback to improve network designs, simplify architectures, and automate engineering and qualification processes.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience engineering networks for large Retail environments, global campuses, high-density wireless deployments, or other business-critical locations.
Experience evaluating, qualifying, and managing networking products through structured lab testing, production pilots, certification, deployment, lifecycle management, and retirement - including developing test plans, success criteria, engineering standards, implementation procedures, and operational documentation.
Knowledge of software-defined networking, network automation, infrastructure as code, APIs, Python, telemetry, and automated validation frameworks.
Experience with identity-based access, zero-trust principles, network access control, security policy enforcement, and application-aware networking.
Experience with cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, internet-edge architecture, remote access, network observability, and performance analytics.
Familiarity with benchmarking tools, traffic generators, packet analysis, wireless survey and spectrum-analysis tools, and automated regression testing.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and industry experience.
Advanced industry certifications such as CCIE, CCDE, CWNE, or equivalent expertise are beneficial but not required.
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years designing, engineering, deploying, and supporting large-scale enterprise, campus, Retail, or service-provider networks across multiple sites or geographic regions, including high-availability and resiliency design.
Deep knowledge of enterprise and data center routing/switching (BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, Route Reflectors, VRF, OSPF, IPv4/IPv6, multicast, QoS, segmentation) and enterprise wireless networking (RF design, Wi-Fi standards, authentication, roaming, capacity planning, wireless security).
Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze complex interactions across networks, applications, security controls, devices, and infrastructure services.
Demonstrated ability to translate business and operational requirements into production-ready technical solutions, working independently across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Experience producing clear, accurate technical documentation, including design specifications and engineering standards
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior leaders, business stakeholders, architects, security teams, engineers, operational teams, and vendors.
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How Austin compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Austin is #4 by population, #5 for remote work (#1 = most), #111 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #13 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Travis County, is #5 of 254 counties for average pay ($96,267).
Austin has 979,539 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 3.2% of the population of Texas. It covers 326 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,001 people per square mile. The median age is 34.7, about the same as the state median (34.7 against 35.6).
The median gross rent is $1,729 a month (rent plus utilities), 23% above the state median ($1,729 against $1,403). Over a year that is 22.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $555,300, which is 5.9 times the median household income ($93,658); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 43.5% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (43.5% against 62.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan area has 1,293,690 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $56,950 a year, 12% above the national median ($56,950 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (159,340 jobs, median $47,770); management (133,950 jobs, median $129,060); food preparation and serving related (120,570 jobs, median $33,280). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and architecture and engineering (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($129,060) and computer and mathematical ($114,350). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Travis County was 3.6%. 75.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Travis County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 56.0% drive alone, 2.0% use public transit, 2.5% walk, 30.7% work from home. 10.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 40% below the state average (10.2% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.
59.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 76% above the state share (59.6% against 33.8%). 18.7% of residents were born outside the United States, 7% above the state share (18.7% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 12.0%, 13% below the state rate (12.0% against 13.8%).
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (30.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 49°F (9.3°C). About 841 mm (33 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (111 mm) and Feb the driest (45 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin, TX | 0 mi | $1,729 | $555,300 | $93,658 | 10.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Pflugerville, TX | 14 mi | $1,932 | $402,400 | $117,799 | 12.3% | n/a | — |
| Cedar Park, TX | 15 mi | $1,846 | $513,600 | $129,545 | 14.8% | n/a | — |
| Round Rock, TX | 17 mi | $1,763 | $418,600 | $99,287 | 13.1% | n/a | — |
| Leander, TX | 20 mi | $1,939 | $506,200 | $139,048 | 22.3% | n/a | — |
| Hutto, TX | 21 mi | $2,255 | $365,700 | $118,834 | 20.4% | n/a | — |
| Kyle, TX | 22 mi | $1,752 | $334,600 | $90,323 | 32.1% | n/a | — |
| Georgetown, TX | 26 mi | $1,795 | $429,100 | $95,062 | 20.8% | n/a | — |
| San Marcos, TX | 31 mi | $1,322 | $310,400 | $51,281 | 16.2% | n/a | — |
| Canyon Lake, TX | 42 mi | $1,327 | $389,300 | $97,301 | 40.2% | n/a | — |
| New Braunfels, TX | 47 mi | $1,654 | $339,400 | $86,021 | 19.5% | n/a | — |
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How far Austin, TX is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Austin, TX | 0 mi | 979,539 |
| San Antonio, TX | 74 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Houston, TX | 146 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 173 mi | 963,194 |
| Dallas, TX | 182 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 357 mi | 697,125 |
| Denver, CO | 768 mi | 718,877 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 870 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 926 mi | 885,860 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 959 mi | 977,670 |
| Chicago, IL | 974 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Charlotte, NC | 1,039 mi | 903,844 |
| Columbus, OH | 1,067 mi | 914,802 |
| San Diego, CA | 1,153 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1,233 mi | 3,857,263 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 1,437 mi | 1,579,706 |
| San Jose, CA | 1,459 mi | 990,138 |
| New York, NY | 1,512 mi | 8,483,844 |
| San Francisco, CA | 1,530 mi | 830,235 |
| Seattle, WA | 1,769 mi | 754,195 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Lockhart, TX | 29 mi | 22 |
| Cibolo, TX | 57 mi | 1 |
| Converse, TX | 64 mi | 1 |
| San Antonio, TX | 74 mi | 179 |
| Lakehills, TX | 85 mi | 1 |
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