The Senior Manager will lead a team focused on building a new service that powers experiences for Apple customers at scale. This role requires a seasoned engineering leader with extensive experience in managing large-scale distributed systems. The manager will set the technical direction and collaborate with various teams to define the architecture and execution plan. The position demands a hands-on approach to both team building and technical decision-making.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• 8+ years of people management experience leading teams of senior backend or distributed systems engineers.
• Proven track record of taking a new service from concept to production at scale.
• Deep expertise in architecting multi-tiered distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong background in the Java/JVM ecosystem and RPC frameworks such as gRPC.
• Deep understanding of transactional consistency models and the trade-offs between relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience with event streaming and queueing systems in production services.
• Experience running services on AWS or GCP with cloud-native tooling.
• Strong operational mindset with experience defining SLOs and leading incident response for customer-facing services.
• Experience deploying and operating ML models or ML-powered services in production environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and align senior cross-functional partners.

• Set the technical and organizational direction for the project from the ground up.
• Partner closely with leaders of Search, Client, AI, and Data Engineering teams.
• Architect, build, and operate highly distributed systems and microservices.
• Lead the effort to bring ML workloads into production.
• Grow a high-performing organization while staying hands-on with architecture and technical decision-making.
• Define the architecture, roadmap, and execution plan for a mission-critical service.

• 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.