Apple
Software Engineer - Traffic (ASE) - Secure Service Networking
$142K–$263K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
About the job
Designs and develops secure, scalable networking services and primitives—including traffic meshes, proxies, libraries, and services—for communication between Apple services.
What you'll do
- Architect and build traffic meshes, proxies, libraries, and services for Apple-scale workloads.
- Enhance mesh, ingress, and egress functionality in the network stack.
- Make technology and architecture decisions; senior engineers also mentor teammates and provide constructive feedback.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more advanced programming languages, such as C, C++, Rust, Swift, Java, or Go.
- Experience operating workloads across multiple cloud-native environments and automating operations at scale; general knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with Layer-4 or Layer-7 traffic meshes (e.g., Envoy or Istio) and control plane technology.
- Expertise in Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking; experience with the Linux network stack.
Pay
$142,300 to $263,300 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Swift, Java, Go, AliCloud, AWS
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