Cloud Traffic Engineer
Shanghai, ChinaFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Team of software/systems/network engineers responsible for global traffic reliability, observability, and performance for Wallets, Payments and Commerce services (e.g., Apple Pay, Apple Card, Apple Cash, Identity, Transit). Focus on uptime, production traffic infrastructure, incident ownership, and resiliency through testing and chaos exercises.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the highest level of up-time and quality of service to Apple’s customers through operational quality.
- Design, maintain, and improve global production traffic infrastructure.
- Ownership of reliability issues using a wide variety of tools.
- Identify areas to improve service resiliency through techniques such as chaos engineering, performance / load testing, and game days.
Qualifications
- Experience with load balancing (Nginx, Envoy and Envoy Gateway), proxies (Squid) and edge deployments.
- 2+ years cloud engineering
- 6+ years on-premise datacenter experience
- Familiarity with Networking, Security, Logging, and Application Monitoring
- Production On-Call experience for critical systems
- Maintaining customer commitments
- Navigating the complexities of the business and service reliability
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, related field, or 10 years of equivalent work experience is highly desirable.
Skills
Required:Load balancingProxiesEdge deployments
Nice to have:Go, Python or similar
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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