ACP Compute Core - Engineering Manager

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Jul 29, 2022 Weekly Hours: 35 Role Number: 200405841 Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. As part of Apple Cloud Platform, our team is responsible for developing and running a compute platform which hosts a number of mission-critical systems at Apple. We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on, software engineering manager to lead a team of engineers responsible for building new platforms as well as maintaining existing solutions. We’re a collection of highly skilled and friendly engineers who value each other’s opinions and experience. We strive for excellence and believe strongly in the quality of our output. We have built a team of domain experts who specialise in specific core subject areas, and also have broad experience of cloud software services and platforms. This position can be based in either London or Cambridge

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

• Previous management experience: managing 4 or more engineers, designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable web services.
• Operate at all levels: ability to see the big picture as well as experience to dive deep when required.
• Collaborative: you excel in a multi-functional global organization through clear communication, consistent delivery, and relationship building
• Strong software development skills: you will make your own contributions and be able to challenge strong engineers in your team

Description

Description You will have significant responsibilities for developing the next generation cloud platform at Apple and will be able to influence the future direction of the product. We use virtualisation technologies and some of the world’s largest Kubernetes clusters to process huge numbers of requests from Apple devices around the world. Most of our software is written in Swift but prior experience of this language is not necessary. Exposure to modern strongly typed languages would be an advantage. Your problem solving skills will be challenged by work which spans multiple layers of the technology stack. Successful candidates will have strong engineering and communication skills, as well as the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the company. You will have a real passion for quality, technical excellence, and an ability to understand complex systems. As a manager in the Apple Cloud Platform organization, you will: - Motivate and grow the individuals in the team - Recruit new talent to grow the team - Role model Apple’s values - Partner with teams across Apple to develop platform capabilities to enable new experiences in the Apple ecosystem - Improve the scalability, availability and performance of our services - Evolve the design and architecture to support continued growth across multiple dimensions - Triage, investigate and remediate production issues

Education & Experience

Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

• - Experience building or running large-scale cloud services
• - Produce reliable, maintainable, deliverable software using CI/CD
• - Willingness to join occasional evening meetings to collaborate with partners in the US
• - Desire and aptitude to independently learn
• - Ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production