Apple
Engineering Manager, CloudKit Infrastructure - iCloud
$226K–$338K
Seattle, Washington · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
About the job
Lead the engineering team and roadmap for CloudKit infrastructure, building and operating reliable, secure, large-scale distributed database systems.
What you'll do
- Guide architecture and contribute to development while overseeing software quality, testing, and releases.
- Support production system availability, durability, and performance; define and execute the infrastructure roadmap.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the engineering team, collaborating with SRE and other cross-functional partners.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Experience building and operating large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems.
- Ability to manage complex priorities and operate in large organizations with high standards for quality and reliability.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
Nice to have
- Strong background in Java, C, C++, and concurrent or multi-threaded programming.
- Experience with database technologies, networking frameworks, cloud-native technologies, or related systems listed in the posting.
Pay
$225,600 and $338,400 (base salary range; USD)
Tools
Java, C, C++, FoundationDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Netty, gRPC
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