Apple

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud

Apple$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in software engineering and leadership of teams including individual contributors and managers
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of control plane architectures and service-oriented design
  • Proven track record in shipping reliable, production systems in high-availability environments
  • Experience managing incident management and reliability engineering practices
  • Ability to drive alignment in complex, matrixed environments
  • Strong technical expertise to engage in architecture discussions with senior engineers

Responsibilities

  • Stabilize and grow a high-performing engineering team
  • Establish a clear technical roadmap for platform engineering
  • Improve platform reliability and developer experience
  • Coordinate deployment of platform applications and manage underlying infrastructure
  • Engage with teams to enforce policies and improve engineering processes
  • Lead incident management and on-call operations for platform teams
  • Foster high-trust team cultures to attract and retain talent

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology at scale
  • Impact millions of customers globally through platform engineering
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Focus on career development and team growth
  • Access to industry-leading tools and resources
Full Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud
iCloud serves billions of customers globally, and the Platform Engineering organization is foundational to how that scale is achieved and maintained. The orchestration layer your teams will own is central to how iCloud provisions, manages, and secures infrastructure by coordinating deployment of platform applications, enforcing policies, and enabling internal engineering teams to build and operate products without managing underlying infrastructure complexity. Your teams' work creates compounding leverage across iCloud: every improvement to the platform makes every team building on top of it faster, safer, and more efficient. In your first year, you will be expected to stabilize and grow a high-performing team, establish a clear technical roadmap, and measurably improve platform reliability and developer experience for your internal customers.

Extensive experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record of leading engineering teams - including managing both individual contributors and managers 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, driving alignment and execution in complex, matrixed environments Strong technical depth with the ability to engage meaningfully 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, distributed tracing, and on-call culture Demonstrated ability to build psychologically safe, high-trust team cultures that attract and retain strong talent Experience operating in large, complex organizations with high standards for quality and reliability

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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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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