About The Position
Join Apple’s team to shape traffic and service development. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining network services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other infrastructure components that enable secure, scalable, and transparent connectivity across Apple cloud environments. Traffic components include network proxying, load balancing, security, routing, and quality of service, supporting Apple services at scale for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The engineer will enhance Apple’s network stack for secure service networking and ingress and egress functionality, and help architect the backbone of Apple’s services. The position emphasizes innovation in traffic management and ownership across the software product lifecycle, from design and implementation through production. The team offers a collaborative environment that supports both social interaction and focused work, provides technical guidance and mentorship, encourages professional growth, and promotes work-life balance, including use of accrued vacation time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in one or more advanced programming languages, such as Go, Java, Rust, C, or C++.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- A full product lifecycle ownership mindset, from design through implementation and production.
- Professional expertise in Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking.
- Experience with open-source technologies such as Envoy, Istio, or DPDK.
- Experience developing and deploying Envoy components, including Envoy Gateway and other proxy-related services.
- Experience working with packet-processing tools.
- Kubernetes experience, including deployments, services, network policies, ingress, and custom controllers.
- Experience with one or more major public cloud providers, including provisioning, networking, load balancing, and managed infrastructure services.
- Familiarity with traffic management patterns, including service mesh, service discovery, load balancing, observability, and security in distributed systems.
- Ability to design RESTful APIs and gRPC services for integration with internal and external systems.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams.
- Experience designing and maintaining large-scale systems handling significant traffic across complex infrastructure, including performance tuning, resource management, and scaling systems efficiently.
- Passion for improving the team and partners you work with.
- A growth mindset.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain network services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other critical infrastructure components.
- Design and develop traffic components for proxying, load balancing, security, routing, and quality of service.
- Enhance the network stack for secure service networking and ingress and egress functionality.
- Own software across the product lifecycle, from design through implementation and production.
- Contribute to team and partner improvement and collaborate with remote teams.
Benefits
- Collaborative work environment with opportunities to socialize or focus.
- Technical guidance and mentorship.
- Encouraging, growth-focused workplace culture.
- Encouragement to use accrued vacation time and maintain work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
