Engineer Manager - Traffic (ASE)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026. Apple scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
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.
Full product lifecycle ownership mindset (design → implementation → production)