Distinguished Engineer – Quality Engineering & Performance, Wallet, Payments & Commerce

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Median wage (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 national median

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

173% above the BLS national median for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Distinguished Engineer – Quality Engineering & Performance, Wallet, Payments & Commerce Cupertino, United States of America At Apple, we don't treat quality and performance as validation steps - we engineer them into the fabric of our systems. Within Wallet, Payments & Commerce (WPC), our platforms power Apple Pay, Apple Cash, Tap to Pay on iPhone, Installments, Connected Accounts, and global payment processing infrastructure serving millions of users and processing billions of transactions. We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define and lead the end-to-end Quality Engineering and Performance strategy for Apple's financial services ecosystem. This role is responsible for architecting systemic reliability, scalability, resilience, and measurable engineering excellence across one of the most critical and regulated platforms at Apple. This is not a test leadership role. This is a platform-defining technical authority role reporting to the head of Quality & Performance software engineering team. As a Distinguished Engineer for QE & Performance, you will define how quality, resilience, and performance are architected, measured, and enforced across all WPC systems. You will operate at Apple scale - influencing architecture before code is written, embedding reliability principles into platform design, and defining measurable standards that protect customer trust and financial integrity worldwide. You will: Define the long-term vision for Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Reliability, and Production Validation across WPC. Architect systemic reliability frameworks spanning development, pre-production, and runtime environments. Establish and govern SLO/SLA standards, latency budgets, scalability targets, and risk tolerance models. Lead cross-organizational initiatives to embed “quality by design” into distributed

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