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Engineer Manager - Traffic (ASE)
AppleShanghai, Shanghai, China5+ years
Apply Help us to extend the ASE (Apple Services Engineering) Traffic team to China! We build the performant and reliable networking primitives that power Apple Services. Our mission is to deliver the best experience for Apple application teams to observe, secure, and manage their application traffic. We are responsible for providing services, meshes, libraries, proxies, and other primitives to deliver an effective network for our peers. Our software must be able to operate 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 the Apple Services Engineering Traffic team, you will lead a group of skilled engineers in designing and delivering best in class traffic solutions. Your team will be responsible for building, deploying, and operating the next generation of traffic mesh, ingress proxy, egress proxy, and border proxy.
Here you will find that we:
- Have a collaborative work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to focus
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship
- Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture
- Encourage you to use accrued vacation time and maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Execute on our vision for the Apple Load Balancer, Apple Transit Gateway, and Apple Traffic Mesh
- Drive architectural decisions and development best practices to optimize performance
- Own distinct pieces of the architecture while partnering with the ASE Traffic team across the globe
- Collaborate closely with program management, product management, and our SRE partners
- Align with partner teams in Network, Compute, and Security
- Lead, mentor, and grow 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
- 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 and/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
- 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 open source traffic software (e.g., Envoy, Istio, NGINX)
- Experience operating workloads across multiple cloud-native environments
- Experience operating with a hybrid multi-cloud environment
- 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 mindset (design → implementation → production)