Apple Services is seeking to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of its cloud ecosystem infrastructure, enabling significant cost savings and ensuring teams have the tools and capabilities they need to launch new products and features.
Requirements
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in languages such as Java or GoLang
- Deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure platforms
- Experience building and operating mission-critical systems at scale
- Proficiency in database design and management (SQL and NoSQL)
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of distributed systems, networking concepts, and infrastructure as code
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for critical infrastructure systems and platforms
- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for your team's domain within the infrastructure ecosystem
- Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Establish best practices for code quality, system design, and operational excellence
- Mentor and develop engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions
- Participate in incident response and lead post-mortems to drive continuous improvement
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including SRE, finance, and product to ensure alignment on priorities
Other
- 3+ years of people management experience with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams
- Excellent leadership and communication skills with ability to influence without authority
- Proven experience leading backend engineering teams, with a focus on infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
- Ability to context-switch between strategic planning and tactical execution
- Experience building and scaling teams, driving complex cross-functional projects, and thriving under pressure
