Traffic Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Apple • Seattle, WA

92d

About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering Traffic team is looking for an experience manager who can lead a team working to build our secure service networking product that power 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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in software engineering.
• Deep understanding of traffic management at scale at Layer 4 or 7 of the network OSI model.
• Strong communication skills with multiple multi-functional engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Experience with operating highly scalable distributed services.

Nice To Haves

• 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 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.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees