Apple

Software Engineering Manager, Wallet Identity

Apple$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering with large-scale distributed systems.
  • 5+ years in engineering management leading high-performing teams.
  • Experience in managing managers with accountability across multiple teams.
  • Expertise in deploying and operating ML models in production.
  • Strong grasp of distributed systems trade-offs like consistency and latency.
  • Proven ability in driving operational excellence and managing incidents.
  • Effective communicator fostering consensus in diverse technical discussions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers and technical leads.
  • Oversee the architecture and development of ML-powered services.
  • Drive the deployment, monitoring, and operational processes of services.
  • Collaborate with ML engineers for scalable model operations.
  • Define and execute engineering strategies across various initiatives.
  • Ensure operational excellence and reliability practices within the team.
  • Build and maintain healthy cross-team relationships to foster collaboration.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a high-impact engineering team.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology in machine learning and identity services.
  • Fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Potential for professional growth and leadership development.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
Full Job Description
As an Engineering Manager on the Wallet Identity Services team, you will lead a group of engineers and technical leads responsible for the services powering liveness detection, face matching, and image quality. You will own the full lifecycle of these ML-powered services - from architecture and development through deployment, monitoring, and on-call operations.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and DevOps. You will partner with ML engineers to deploy and operate models at scale, and collaborate closely with the iOS team that builds the on-device experience.

You will define engineering strategy across multiple workstreams, drive operational excellence, and grow both your team and its leaders.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems at large scale.

5+ years of engineering management experience with a track record of building, growing, and leading high-performing teams.

Experience managing managers or technical leads, with accountability for outcomes across multiple workstreams or sub-teams.

Experience managing the deployment and operation of ML models in production, including model serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and trade-offs in consistency, latency, and throughput.

Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence, including on-call culture, incident management, and reliability practices.

Clear and thoughtful communicator, able to drive consensus on complex technical topics with diverse audiences including cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

A track record of building influence and healthy relationships within and beyond your immediate team.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on software development experience with Java or Kotlin and Spring.

Experience building and operating high-volume REST or gRPC services.

Familiarity with ML infrastructure - model serving, experiment tracking, data pipelines, and A/B testing for models.

Experience with containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.

Understanding of security, privacy, and cryptography fundamentals.

Experience with databases at scale, both relational and NoSQL.

Experience with workflow orchestration tools.

Domain experience in computer vision or liveness detection.

Familiarity with digital identity standards such as ISO 18013/23220.

Experience using generative AI tools to accelerate software development.

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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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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