Apple

SRE Manager, ML Operations

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

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • 5+ years in an engineering leadership role, ideally managing SRE or Production Engineering teams
  • Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams
  • Strong grasp of core operating system principles and networking fundamentals
  • Deep understanding of SRE principles including monitoring and incident response
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow the Site Reliability Engineering team focusing on ML Operations
  • Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of the Ad Serving infrastructure
  • Shape the future of ML Platforms and Services on a global scale
  • Cultivate a team culture defined by operational excellence and innovation
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Platform Engineering teams to achieve business goals

Benefits

  • High-impact leadership role
  • Opportunity to shape ML infrastructure at one of the largest scales in the industry
  • Emphasis on operational excellence and continuous improvement
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools in cloud infrastructure
  • Engagement with a diverse team across multiple engineering disciplines
Full Job Description
Description

We are looking for a senior engineering leader to manage and grow our Site Reliability Engineering team, with a focus on ML Operations. This team owns the reliability, performance, and scalability of the Ad Serving infrastructure that serves as the critical front door of Apple Ads - operating at one of the largest scales in the industry.

This is a high-impact leadership role where you will shape the future of how we build, run, and evolve our ML Platforms and Services globally. You will bring deep technical expertise while staying anchored to business and product goals, and you will cultivate a team culture defined by operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems

5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role, ideally managing SRE or Production Engineering teams

Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams

Strong grasp of core operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management

Deep understanding of SRE principles: monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, capacity planning, and incident response

Excellent problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Experience managing and optimizing GPU-based clusters in production environments

Experience building and operating large-scale ML systems or ML infrastructure at scale

Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS

Familiarity with the digital advertising ecosystem and its technical demands

Demonstrated ability to influence and partner across Product, Data Science, and Platform Engineering organizations

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
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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