The Apple Services Engineering Traffic team is looking to build performant and reliable service to service communication, providing services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other primitives to deliver an effective network for peers, serving hundreds of millions of users in support of critical multi-billion dollar businesses at Apple
Requirements
- Professional expertise in Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking
- Strong hands on experience with Layer-4 or Layer-7 traffic meshes (Envoy, Istio, etc.) and control plane technology
- Experience operating workloads across multiple cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
- Experience with modern containerization platforms such as the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Exposure to end-to-end routing of traffic in a complex ecosystem - from CDNs to application instances via multiple hops
- A deep understanding of traffic management at scale at Layer 4 or 7 of the network OSI model
- Experience with operating highly scalable distributed services
Responsibilities
- Complete our vision for the Apple Traffic Mesh
- Drive architectural decisions and development standards to optimize performance
- Collaborate closely with program management, product management, and our SRE partners
- Align with partner teams in Network, Compute, and Security
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, accountability, and technical excellence
- Develop and evolve the team's processes, values, and culture, with a focus on camaraderie, efficiency and simplicity
Other
- Bachelors degrees in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years of leadership experience in software engineering
- Strong communication skills with multiple multi-functional engineering and non-engineering partners
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering in highly scalable distributed services
