Job description

As a Solution Architect on ASE Traffic, you will act as the bridge between our platform and the engineering teams who depend on it. You'll meet with customer teams to understand their current traffic architecture, application topology, and networking requirements, then design integration paths onto Apple's managed traffic products. Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, TLS/mTLS) Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, especially ingress/egress traffic patterns Working knowledge of Envoy, and/or other service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or others) Strong ability to gather requirements from customers and translate ambiguity into a clear technical plan Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical solutions to engineers of varying seniority Experience with load balancing strategies, service discovery, and rate limiting at scale Experience with distributed systems design and analyzing systems for performance or reliability issues Familiarity with API design for network-related services and inter-process communication (sockets, gRPC, message queues) Experience supporting live, customer-facing services in a production environment Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive multi-team initiatives to completion Ability to foster trusting relationships across a diverse set of internal customer teams Experience with traffic solutions over 3rd-party cloud providers is a plus

Requirements

Must-haves

Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, TLS/mTLS)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, especially ingress/egress traffic patterns
Working knowledge of Envoy, and/or other service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or others)
Strong ability to gather requirements from customers and translate ambiguity into a clear technical plan
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical solutions to engineers of varying seniority
Experience with load balancing strategies, service discovery, and rate limiting at scale
Experience with distributed systems design and analyzing systems for performance or reliability issues
Familiarity with API design for network-related services and inter-process communication (sockets, gRPC, message queues)
Experience supporting live, customer-facing services in a production environment
Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive multi-team initiatives to completion
Ability to foster trusting relationships across a diverse set of internal customer teams

Nice-to-haves

Experience with traffic solutions over 3rd-party cloud providers is a plus

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Keywords to mirror

kubernetesapi

Platform: apple
Effort: medium