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Software Engineer - Traffic, Envoy

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-30 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and development of cutting-edge traffic proxies (ingress, egress, mesh) powering Apple services at unprecedented scale.

Role type

Senior IC traffic engineer (networking stack)

Builds

Ingress, egress, and mesh proxies for service-to-service communication

Domain

Cloud networking / Traffic management

Required skills

C, C++, Java, Go, Linux network stack, Envoy extensions/filters, performance analysis, SLOs, scalability design

Preferred skills

Traffic/Edge Engineering, Cloud Networking, Open source contribution (Envoy), mentoring

Technologies

Envoy, Linux, C, C++, Java, Go

Responsibilities

Orchestrate design and development of traffic proxies, enhance network stack for ingress/egress/mesh, make informed technology choices in complex architectures, coach and mentor teammates

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC