Senior Engineering Manager, Core Services - Apple Services Engineering

Apple • Cupertino, CA

3d

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming
extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring
passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can
accomplish. Would you like the stimulation and challenges of building
world-class, extraordinarily scalable systems that power App Store, Apple Music,
Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, Apple Arcade, and many more? Then this is the
opportunity for you at Apple! We strive to provide a flawless experience for
millions of customers and developers. Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Core
Services team is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an exceptional,
geographically distributed team of Software Engineers who own, develop, and
maintain the online content system housing all the catalog and editorial
metadata that powers our Apple services. As a cornerstone of our engineering
stack, this system - and your leadership of it - will be central to the
development of new features and platform capabilities across all of Apple
Services Engineering. Come be part of the team that owns critical infrastructure
and drives what comes next.

In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for services that
are central to all of Apple Services Engineering, developing new product
features and platform capabilities. You will drive engineering solutions to
enhance a globally distributed API, work with NoSQL data stores to push the
boundaries of the CAP theorem, and shape data modeling strategies that keep our
systems horizontally scalable as they grow. This is not just a technical
leadership role, it is a strategic one. You will serve as a strategic partner to
Product Management and senior leadership alike, shaping product direction,
roadmap prioritization, and long-term engineering investments in equal measure.
You will translate product requirements into actionable engineering decisions
while ensuring engineering perspectives are embedded throughout the development
lifecycle. Partnering closely with Directors and VPs, you'll navigate complex
cross-functional negotiations, advocate for the right technical solutions, and
champion the platform and infrastructure work that often gets squeezed by
business priorities, making the case for foundational investments and protecting
the runway your team needs to keep systems healthy and scalable.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, 10+ years of experience in a related field, with 5+ years building and managing engineering teams central to product and platform development.
• Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior technical leadership, including Directors and VPs.
• Proven ability to navigate complex cross-team technical negotiations and drive alignment on architectural and implementation decisions.
• Track record of strategic planning, balancing business-driven feature work with critical infrastructure investments and making those trade-offs clearly and consistently.
• Expertise in scalable web services, globally distributed systems, and multi-functional feature delivery.
• Expertise with NoSQL data stores such as Solr, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Java and functional languages such as Scala and Clojure.
• Strong analytical skills with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience owning complex engineering projects from inception through production.
• Prior experience with hiring, performance management, and growing senior engineering talent.
• Excellent communication skills, can make compelling arguments, drive difficult conversations, and represent engineering clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrates strong judgment in knowing when to escalate, when to resolve informally, and how to cultivate relationships that accelerate execution.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to context-switch across multiple high-priority workstreams and engage all levels of the technical stack.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing teams with presence across multiple international locations and time zones.
• Comfortable engaging hands-on in technical discussions, code reviews, and production troubleshooting alongside the team.
• Expertise in Big Data processing technologies such as Spark and Flink.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager