Senior Cloud Traffic Engineer

Apple Inc

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Austin, TX
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11 days ago
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Cloud Traffic Engineer

The Senior Cloud Traffic Engineer, Apple Pay joins a team of software, systems, and network engineers responsible for the modernization, reliability, and observability of Wallets, Payments, and Commerce traffic infrastructure. This role manages both internal and external traffic within a complex, distributed environment governed by strict privacy and security requirements. You will design, maintain, and improve global production traffic infrastructure while ensuring high uptime and quality of service. Key responsibilities include owning reliability issues, performing chaos engineering, and conducting performance and load testing. Required technical skills include experience with load balancing using Nginx, Envoy, and Envoy Gateway, as well as Squid proxies and edge deployments. Candidates should possess familiarity with networking, security, logging, and application monitoring, with preferred experience developing in Go or Python.

What you'll do

  • Design, maintain, and improve global production traffic infrastructure.
  • Ensure high levels of uptime and quality of service for Apple customers.
  • Take ownership of reliability issues using a wide variety of tools.
  • Identify service resiliency improvements through chaos engineering and load testing.
  • Manage internal and external traffic within complex, distributed environments.
  • Maintain strict privacy and security requirements for global traffic infrastructure.
  • Monitor and improve logging, networking, and application performance.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of cloud engineering experience.
  • Experience with load balancing (Nginx, Envoy, and Envoy Gateway), proxies (Squid), and edge deployments.
  • Familiarity with Networking, Security, Logging, and Application Monitoring.
  • Ability to coach and mentor other individual contributors.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
  • Bachelors Degree in computer science, a related field, or 10 years of equivalent work experience (preferred).
  • Experience developing in Go, Python, or similar programming languages (preferred).

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