Traffic Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Traffic Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States

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!

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in software engineering.
• A 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering in highly scalable distributed services.
• 4+ years of management experience in software engineering. A track record of building and managing engineer 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)

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $188,200 and $325,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.