Apple is looking to hire a Traffic Engineer to drive the design, development, and maintenance of network services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other critical infrastructure components that ensure secure, scalable, and transparent connectivity across Apple cloud environments.
Requirements
- Skilled with one or more advanced programming language such as C, C++, Java or Go
- Professional expertise in Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking
- experience developing and deploying control-plane components for Envoy, including but not limited to EnvoyGateway and other proxy-related services.
- experience in writing performant and efficient Golang code in production environments.
- experience in Java, with a good understanding of object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and JVM performance tuning.
- Experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating microservices, with knowledge of deployments, services, ingress controllers, and custom controllers.
- Familiarity with traffic management patterns, service discovery, load balancing, observability, and security in modern distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- drive the design, development, and maintenance of network services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other critical infrastructure components
- orchestrate the design and development of cutting-edge traffic components, ranging from network proxying and load balancing to security, routing, and quality of service
- enhance our network stack for improved ingress and egress functionality
- architect the backbone of Apple
- pushing the boundaries of what's possible in software development by addressing challenges at an extraordinary scale and driving innovation in traffic management
- provide and receive technical guidance and mentorship
- design implementation production
Other
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience
- Professional expertise in software engineering
- Full product lifecycle ownership mindset
- Passionate about improving the team and partners you work with
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
