Apple

Engineering Manager, Web Indexing

Apple$160K — $190K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 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 frameworks like MapReduce.
  • Proven track record leading multi-team technical initiatives and influencing without direct authority.
  • Strong communication skills for technical topics with senior leadership.
  • BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team building and scaling indexing infrastructure for web and image search.
  • Own technical direction and execution for large-scale offline and near-real-time indexing systems.
  • Oversee architecture, scalability, reliability, and efficiency across massive data sets.
  • Collaborate closely with other teams to resolve dependencies and drive architectural trade-offs.
  • Act as a liaison to senior leadership on strategy, risks, and resource allocation.
  • Drive complex, multi-team initiatives to completion while maintaining organizational influence.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead innovative projects in a cutting-edge field
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams enhancing professional growth
  • Potential to influence strategic decisions at a high level
  • Development opportunities for senior engineers into leadership roles
  • Engagement in petabyte-scale projects impacting global search functionalities
Full Job Description
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds and scales the indexing infrastructure powering web and image search. The team runs both petabyte-scale offline batch pipelines and near-real-time indexing systems that turn web documents, images, and metadata into production-ready indexes.

You'll lead engineers across distributed computing, data processing, and storage, while partnering with crawling, ranking, ML, retrieval, and infrastructure teams to shape the long-term indexing strategy. This is a cross-functional leadership role requiring strong technical depth, organizational influence, and the ability to drive complex, multi-team initiatives.

Description

You'll own both technical direction and execution for two core systems: large-scale offline indexing (distributed pipelines processing petabytes of content into production indexes) and fresh/near-real-time indexing (low-latency propagation of new or updated content). Responsibilities span architecture, scalability, reliability, and efficiency across billions of documents and images.

Success requires close collaboration across teams to resolve dependencies, make architecture tradeoffs, and drive large programs to completion, while acting as a key liaison to senior leadership on strategy, risks, and resourcing.

Minimum Qualifications

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 (e.g., MapReduce-style models)

Track record leading multi-team technical initiatives and influencing without direct authority

Strong communication skills for technical topics with senior leadership

BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with batch/streaming frameworks (Spark, Beam, Flink, Kafka, etc.)

Experience with distributed storage systems (Bigtable, HBase, 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-org programs and presenting strategy to executive leadership

Track record developing senior engineers into technical leadership roles

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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