Apple
Senior Solution Architect, Traffic Infrastructure ASE
$175K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
About the job
Partners with Apple engineering teams to design and deliver integrations with managed traffic products, including load balancing, service mesh, and gateway offerings.
What you'll do
- Gather customer traffic and networking requirements, assess Kubernetes deployments, and design integration paths.
- Advise on Envoy and service mesh adoption; produce solution designs, migration plans, and documentation.
- Identify product capability gaps, resolve integration issues, and coordinate with engineering, SRE, and partner teams.
What they ask for
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and TLS/mTLS.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, especially ingress/egress traffic patterns.
- Working knowledge of Envoy and/or other service mesh technologies.
- Ability to gather customer requirements, translate ambiguity into technical plans, and communicate solutions to engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience with load balancing, service discovery, rate limiting, distributed systems, or production customer-facing services.
- Familiarity with Python, Go, or Java for tooling and reading service code.
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
TCP/IP, DNS, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Python, Go
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