Apple

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Apple Maps

Apple$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-15+ years in SRE or related fields, with 10 years in senior management
  • Proven leadership in large-scale, user-facing distributed services
  • Strong understanding of Linux, distributed systems, and network infrastructure
  • Experience with AI/ML tooling for improving SRE operations
  • Ability to assess and approve AI-generated code for production
  • Demonstrated capability to create and execute AI strategies in SRE
  • Excellent communication skills at the executive level

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategic direction for Apple Maps serving infrastructure
  • Lead the SRE organization to ensure reliability and scalability
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams
  • Shape the roadmap for the serving platform
  • Drive transformation in SRE practices leveraging AI technologies
  • Manage operational excellence for visible Apple services
  • Facilitate partnerships across engineering and product departments

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a high-impact SRE organization
  • Work at the forefront of AI and reliability engineering
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Influence the direction of a widely-used service
  • Career growth potential within a leading tech company
Full Job Description
Description

We are looking for a senior SRE leader to set the strategic direction for our Maps serving infrastructure. This is not just a "keep the lights on" role - this is a leadership position that defines where our infrastructure goes next, how our SRE practice evolves, and how we build the teams and partnerships to get there. You will work closely with engineering, product, and operations partners across Apple to shape the roadmap for our serving platform. You will lead an organization of SREs and hold responsibility for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of some of Apple's most visible services. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how SRE is practiced - from incident detection and resolution to capacity planning and toil elimination - and we're looking for a leader who shares that conviction and can drive that transformation across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

10-15+ years of experience in SRE or adjacent disciplines (systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, production engineering), with at least 10 years in senior management roles

Demonstrated experience leading SRE organizations supporting large-scale, user-facing distributed services

Strong technical proficiency in Linux fundamentals, distributed systems concepts, networking, and infrastructure at scale

Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML tooling or LLM-based solutions to improve SRE or infrastructure operations

Ability to read and understand code produced by LLMs and evaluate its suitability for production use

Has defined or is actively executing an AI strategy for a large SRE organization

Proven ability to communicate at the executive level and negotiate across organizational boundaries

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and Kubernetes at scale

Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or infrastructure architecture

Track record of driving cultural and process transformation within SRE organizations

Experience building or deploying AI-powered operational tooling (AIOps, intelligent alerting, automated diagnostics)

Hands-on experience with LLM-based developer/SRE productivity tools

Track record of driving AI adoption within engineering teams

Experience operating services at Apple-scale user volumes

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
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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