Engineer Manager - Traffic (ASE)

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 226,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Stock grant programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager for the Services Engineering Traffic team. You will lead engineers to design and deliver secure service networking, building the next generation of traffic mesh and ensuring high performance at Apple scale.

You will drive architecture decisions, mentor a team, and collaborate with PM, product management, and SRE partners to deliver reliable services across multiple cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelors 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 cross-functional engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Experience with operating highly scalable distributed services.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions and development best practices 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 collaboration and technical excellence.
• Develop and evolve the team's processes, values, and culture.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Traffic management

Distributed systems

Cross-functional comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Envoy

Istio

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

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!

Description

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.In this role, you will:Drive architectural decisions and development best practices 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.

Responsibilities

• Bachelors 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 cross-functional engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Experience with operating highly scalable distributed services

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors 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 cross-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 world 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 (e.g. 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.

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 $225,600 and $338,400, 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
• 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

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