Senior Engineering Manager – Apple Services Traffic

Summary

Posted: Nov 13, 2024

Role Number:200578851

People at Apple don’t just build products. They craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. The Apple Service Engineering Traffic team is looking for an experienced manager who is capable of leading multiple teams working in the Traffic space. This leader will lead & grow engineering and research initiatives to help build Traffic systems at Apple Scale. You will lead highly performant teams that will align, architect, drive, and build solutions to support Apple Cloud Engineering efforts. The candidate should have experience developing large-scale systems. They will get to bootstrap, enhance and deliver the world largest traffic control plane which serves hundreds of millions of users in support critical multi-billion dollar businesses at Apple.

Description

Core Responsibilities * Lead multiple teams of highly-skilled engineers, empowering and enabling them to deliver the best traffic management solutions (API Gateways, Load Balancing, DNS and Certificate Automation, Traffic Shaping, etc). * Define, prioritize, and deliver on a prioritized roadmap for this space. * Nurture an environment that emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and creativity. * Develop and evolve the team’s processes, values, and culture, with a focus on camaraderie, efficiency and simplicity. * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, with an emphasis on coaching and career development. * Drive adoption of the solutions developed in this team across ASE and beyond.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of management experience in software engineering, track record of building and managing engineering teams.
• 12+ years of software development experience in highly scalable distributed services.
• Deep understanding of traffic management at scale for HTTP and gRPC APIs.
• Strong 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java or Go and their ecosystem.
• Strong hands-on experience with Layer-7 traffic proxying (Nginx, Envoy, etc), load-balancing and control plane technology (service meshes).
• Experience operating workloads across multiple cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP).
• Strong communication skills, with multiple cross-functional engineering and non-engineering partners.

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $219,300 and $378,700, 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. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.