Job Details

Manager, Systems Engineering, Apple Services Engineering

Austin, Texas, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jun 05, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200607780

People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

The Apple Services Engineering(ASE) team builds and provides systems and infrastructure that power Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, and Maps). We are the foundation on which Apple’s software developers build the products that our customers love. Our services have to scale globally, stay highly available, and "just work.”

If you love designing, engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you!

Description

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Systems Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in designing, building tools, and supporting large-scale infrastructure systems that can scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offerings. You will collaborate with world-class engineers to design, implement, and support operating system technologies that support large-scale Linux systems. We address complex problems using both open-source and in-house tooling to support security and business initiatives. You will contribute to our team’s initiative to promote automation and self-service tools for service democratization and enforcing responsibilities with respective app teams.

As a Systems Engineering manager, you will lead a team responsible for providing the platform for mission-critical cloud systems that maintain constant uptime, scale seamlessly, and enable the flourishing of new applications and services.

Does this sound like you? Join us!

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with 10+ years building & leading high-performing engineering teams with a focus on cloud computing

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise services in a large-scale *nix environment

• Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure as a managed service

• Understanding of cloud computing architectures, systems design and performance optimization

• Extensive Linux experience, especially with Oracle Linux, CentOS etc, in addition to a good understanding of Linux systems administration

• Experience with revision control systems like GitHub, CI/CD unit testing, and configuration management systems

• Automation and configuration management skills using Puppet, Ansible, with a passion for automating things rather than doing them twice

• Experience in Python, and/or Go with large installment systems

• Skilled at working cross-functionally to achieve project success

• Desire to build, grow and mentor a team

• Strong philosophy of continuous improvement

• Strong sense of ownership wanting to understand how things work and resolve root causes

• Ability to encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency across teams

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operational load via software

• Self-motivated, inquisitive, and always looking to learn more

• Experience with Puppet or Chef

• Information Security and Regulatory Compliance knowledge

• Ability to lead Engineering teams in multiple geographic locations, with direct customer impact for business-critical functionality.

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