Software Engineer - Traffic, Envoy

Apple•Seattle, WA

16h

About The Position

Apple’s services rely on performant, reliable networking primitives that connect services securely, scalably, and transparently. The Traffic team implements networking and traffic primitives for resilient service-to-service communication, packaged as ingress, egress, and mesh proxies at Apple scale. The Traffic Engineer designs and develops traffic proxies that power Apple services for hundreds of millions of users worldwide, and enhances the network stack’s ingress, egress, and mesh functionality. Senior engineers make informed technology choices within complex architectures, identify opportunities aligned with the team’s mission and Apple’s business, products, customers, and strategy, and make decisions even amid differing perspectives. They navigate ambiguity by focusing on broader objectives and desired impact, and coach and mentor teammates while seeking and providing constructive feedback. The team describes its workplace as peaceful, with options to socialize or focus, technical guidance and mentorship, and an encouraging, growth-focused culture. It encourages employees to use accrued vacation time and maintain work-life balance, and offers benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of relevant industry experience.
Professional expertise in software engineering.
Proficiency in one or more advanced programming languages, such as C, C++, Java, or Go.
A full product lifecycle ownership mindset, from design through implementation and production.
Experience with production engineering best practices, such as designing for operability and scalability, adopting SLOs, and eliminating toil.

Nice To Haves

Passion for improving the team and its partners.
Extensive professional expertise in traffic/edge engineering or cloud networking.
Expertise and experience developing extensions or filters for Envoy.
Expertise with the Linux network stack.
Understanding of performance analysis and optimization.
Passion for enabling internal partner teams.
Interest in contributing to open-source projects such as Envoy and working across a large organization to meet Apple’s traffic needs.

Responsibilities

Design and develop traffic proxies powering Apple services at global scale.
Enhance the network stack for ingress, egress, and mesh functionality.
Own the full product lifecycle from design through implementation and production.
For senior engineers: make technology and architecture choices, including decisions about whether to build or buy components and which frameworks to use.
For senior engineers: identify opportunities aligned with the team’s mission and Apple’s business, products, customers, and strategy.
For senior engineers: make decisions amid conflicting perspectives, focus on broader objectives and impact, and move work forward through ambiguity.
For senior engineers: coach and mentor teammates, and seek and provide constructive feedback.