Traffic Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Apple • Seattle, WA

75d

About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering Traffic team is looking for an experienced manager who can lead a team working to build our secure service networking product that powers Apple Services. Our mission is to build performant and reliable service to service communication. We are responsible for providing services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other primitives to deliver an effective network for our peers. This challenge is all met at Apple scale, serving hundreds of millions of users in support of critical multi-billion dollar businesses at Apple! As a Software Engineering Manager within Apple Services Engineering Traffic team, you will lead a group of skilled engineers in designing and delivering best in class secure service networking. Your team will be responsible for building the next generation of traffic mesh.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering in highly scalable distributed services.
• 4+ years of management experience in software engineering.
• Proven track record of building and managing engineering teams.
• 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.
• Full product lifecycle ownership attitude (design → implementation → production).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of skilled engineers in designing and delivering secure service networking solutions.
• Build the next generation of traffic mesh.
• Provide services, proxies, meshes, libraries, and other primitives for effective network communication.
• Ensure the performance and reliability of service to service communication.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees