JobsSenior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud
AppleSenior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud
AppleLocation
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
5/15/2026
Compensation
Not listed
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025Job description
The Senior Engineering Manager at Apple will lead teams responsible for the systems that enable the cloud infrastructure to operate at scale with exceptional reliability, security, and efficiency. This role requires a technically grounded leader who can drive clarity in complex environments and build systems that create leverage across a global cloud platform. The manager will guide architectural direction, scale operational practices, and develop the next generation of engineering leaders within iCloud. The focus will be on stabilizing and growing a high-performing team while improving platform reliability and developer experience.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in software engineering with a track record of leading engineering teams.
- Experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of control plane architectures, service-oriented design, and API-driven systems.
- Track record of shipping highly reliable, production systems in high-availability environments.
- Experience leading incident management, on-call operations, and reliability engineering practices.
- Ability to operate across multiple teams or domains in complex, matrixed environments.
- Strong technical depth to engage in architecture and design discussions with senior engineers.
- Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with identity, authentication, and authorization systems at scale.
- Experience building internal developer platforms that improve productivity and abstract infrastructure complexity.
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation, policy as code, and cost optimization practices.
- Experience designing and maturing observability practices, including SLO/SLI frameworks and distributed tracing.
- Demonstrated ability to build psychologically safe, high-trust team cultures.
- Experience operating in large, complex organizations with high standards for quality and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple teams responsible for cloud infrastructure systems.
- Guide architectural direction and scale operational practices.
- Develop the next generation of engineering leaders within iCloud.
- Stabilize and grow a high-performing team in the first year.
- Establish a clear technical roadmap for the teams.
- Measurably improve platform reliability and developer experience for internal customers.
Benefits
- Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.
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