Summary

Posted: Nov 4, 2022

Role Number:200441625

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. As part of Apple Cloud Platform, our team is responsible for developing and running a compute platform which hosts a number of mission-critical systems at Apple. We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on, software engineering manager to lead a team of engineers responsible for building new platforms as well as maintaining existing solutions. We’re a collection of highly skilled and friendly engineers who value each other’s opinions and experience. We strive for excellence and believe strongly in the quality of our output. We have built a team of domain experts who specialise in specific core subject areas, and also have broad experience of cloud software services and platforms. This position can be based in either London or Cambridge.

Key Qualifications

Previous management experience: managing 4 or more engineers, designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable web services.
Operate at all levels: ability to see the big picture as well as experience to dive deep when required
Collaborative: you excel in a multi-functional global organisation through clear communication, consistent delivery, and relationship building
Strong software development skills: you will make your own contributions and be able to challenge strong engineers in your team

Description

You will have significant responsibilities for developing the next generation cloud platform at Apple and will be able to influence the future direction of the product. We use virtualisation technologies and some of the world’s largest Kubernetes clusters to process huge numbers of requests from Apple devices around the world. Most of our software is written in Swift but prior experience of this language is not necessary. Exposure to modern strongly typed languages would be an advantage. Your problem solving skills will be challenged by work which spans multiple layers of the technology stack. Successful candidates will have strong engineering and communication skills, as well as the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the company. You will have a real passion for quality, technical excellence, and an ability to understand complex systems. As a manager in the Apple Cloud Platform organization, you will: - Motivate and grow the individuals in the team - Recruit new talent to grow the team - Role model Apple’s values - Partner with teams across Apple to develop platform capabilities to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem - Improve the scalability, availability and performance of our services - Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions - Triage, investigate and remediate production issues

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements

Experience building or running large-scale cloud services

Produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software using CI/CD

Willingness to join occasional evening meetings to collaborate with partners in the US

Desire and aptitude to independently learn

Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production

Apple’s most important resource, our soul, is our people. Apple benefits help further the well-being of our employees and their families in meaningful ways. No matter where you work at Apple, you can take advantage of our health and wellness resources and time-away programmes. We’re proud to provide stock grants to employees at all levels of the company, and we also give employees the option to buy Apple stock at a discount — both offer everyone at Apple the chance to share in the company’s success. You’ll discover many more benefits of working at Apple, such as programmes that match your charitable contributions, reimburse you for continuing your education and give you special employee pricing on Apple products.
Apple benefits programmes vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace.