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About the Role
Apple Pay builds and operates systems that power global transactions. This Architect role is responsible for setting the technical direction for system reliability, scalability, and availability, translating opinions into concrete architecture, tooling, and team practices.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for Apple Pay's distributed systems.
- Drive reliability engineering practices, observability strategy, and scalability architecture.
- Review designs for resilience gaps.
- Write code and prototypes to validate architectural decisions.
- Lead incident reviews and postmortems that drive systemic fixes.
- Collaborate with client, server, devops, and product engineering teams to ensure architecture decisions account for operational constraints.
Requirements
- Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems at scale in high-throughput, low-latency production environments.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: replication, partitioning/sharding, consensus protocols, eventual vs. strong consistency, idempotency, and failure handling across network partitions.
- Hands-on experience defining and instrumenting metrics for availability and scalability (e.g., SLOs, error budgets, distributed tracing) and using them to drive concrete engineering decisions.
- Strong background in the building blocks of scalable systems: load balancing, caching layers, message queues/event streaming, database sharding/replication, service mesh, and rate limiting/backpressure mechanisms.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams without direct management authority, and to communicate trade-offs clearly to both engineers and leadership.
- Track record of leading incident reviews or reliability programs and turning postmortem findings into durable systemic improvements.
- Skilled at operating with ambiguity across large, complex system landscapes and driving alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with multi-region or globally distributed systems, including failover and disaster recovery design at scale.
- Prior experience in payments, fraud/risk systems, or other regulated, high-availability financial infrastructure.
- Contributions to open-source distributed systems projects or published technical writing on the subject.
- Experience establishing or maturing a devops/reliability practice within an organization.
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Reliability engineering
- Observability strategy
- Scalability architecture
- Replication
- Partitioning/sharding
- Consensus protocols
- Consistency models
- Idempotency
- Failure handling
- Metrics instrumentation
- SLOs
- Error budgets
- Distributed tracing
- Load balancing
- Caching
- Message queues/event streaming
- Database sharding/replication
- Service mesh
- Rate limiting/backpressure
- Incident reviews
- Postmortems
- Failover
- Disaster recovery
- Payments systems
- Fraud/risk systems
- Devops
- Reliability practice
Experience Level
- Architect
About the Company
- Apple Pay builds and operates the systems that power Apple Pay transactions at global scale.