Apple
Core Services Media API Engineering Manager - Platforms Team
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in a related field, with 5+ years building and managing engineering teams central to product and platform development.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science.
About the job
Leads the team building and operating Apple Services’ catalog and editorial metadata systems, APIs, and platform infrastructure, while shaping product direction and engineering investments.
What you'll do
- Lead engineers developing and maintaining services and platform capabilities, including User Ratings and Reviews, API gateway, caching, and content liveness systems.
- Guide architecture and scalability for globally distributed APIs and NoSQL-backed systems.
- Partner with Product Management and senior leadership on roadmaps, technical decisions, cross-team alignment, and infrastructure investment.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science.
- 10+ years of experience in a related field, including 5+ years building and managing engineering teams central to product and platform development.
- Expertise in scalable web services, globally distributed systems, and NoSQL data stores.
- Hands-on experience with Java and functional languages such as Scala and Clojure.
Nice to have
- Experience managing teams across international locations and time zones.
- Expertise in Big Data processing technologies such as Spark and Flink.
Pay
$206,200 and $356,400 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Solr, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, Java, Scala, Clojure
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