Apple

Senior Solution Architect, Traffic Infrastructure ASE

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20 hours ago

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with Apple engineering teams to understand traffic architectures, application topologies, and networking requirements.
  • Design concrete integration paths onto Apple's managed traffic products.
  • Translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear technical plans.
  • Identify and help close product feature gaps.
  • Present technical solutions to engineers with varying levels of seniority.
  • Support live customer-facing services and drive multi-team initiatives to completion.

Requirements

  • Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and TLS/mTLS.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience, particularly with ingress and egress traffic patterns.
  • Working knowledge of Envoy and service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.
  • Ability to gather customer requirements and translate them into clear technical plans.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical solutions.
  • Preferred experience with load balancing strategies, service discovery, and rate limiting at scale.
  • Preferred experience designing distributed systems and analyzing performance or reliability issues.
  • Familiarity with network-related API design and inter-process communication, including sockets, gRPC, and message queues.
  • Experience supporting live customer-facing production services and working across competing priorities.
  • Experience with traffic solutions over third-party cloud providers is a plus.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorgRPCIstioKubernetes

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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