The Engineering Manager will lead a team focused on building and scaling the indexing infrastructure for web and image search. This role involves overseeing both offline batch pipelines and near-real-time indexing systems. The manager will collaborate with various teams to shape the long-term indexing strategy and drive complex initiatives. A strong technical background and leadership skills are essential for success in this position.

• Significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure.
• Engineering management experience leading software teams.
• Strong grasp of distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and storage.
• Experience with distributed batch processing models such as MapReduce.
• Strong communication skills for discussing technical topics with senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with batch and streaming frameworks like Spark, Beam, Flink, or Kafka.
• Experience with distributed storage systems such as Bigtable, HBase, or Cassandra.
• Background in search, information retrieval, or large-scale content processing.
• Experience with image processing, computer vision, or multimodal systems.
• Experience optimizing distributed systems for cost, latency, and throughput.
• Experience driving cross-organizational programs and presenting strategy to executive leadership.
• Track record of developing senior engineers into technical leadership roles.

• Lead engineers across distributed computing, data processing, and storage.
• Own technical direction and execution for large-scale offline and near-real-time indexing systems.
• Collaborate closely with teams to resolve dependencies and make architecture tradeoffs.
• Drive large programs to completion while acting as a liaison to senior leadership.
• Ensure architecture, scalability, reliability, and efficiency across billions of documents and images.

• 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.