Apple
Engineering Program Manager, Architecture & Performance, Apple Services Engineering
$167K–$251K
Seattle, Washington · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of program management, product management, systems engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant industry experience.
About the job
Leads performance-focused feature development and cross-functional programs to improve Apple Services products globally.
What you'll do
- Define performance metrics and KPIs, and coordinate teams to achieve performance goals.
- Connect engineering, reliability, business, operations, marketing, analytics, and vendor teams to deliver end-to-end projects.
- Support project lifecycles, including requirements, analysis, proofs of concept, QA, and release management across multiple projects.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of program management, product management, systems engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong project management skills covering schedules, dependencies, critical paths, and risks.
- Technical understanding of large-scale distributed software systems, cloud architecture, development, and deployment.
- Experience with globally distributed teams; BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with systems performance instrumentation and optimizations, or work across a full software stack.
- Understanding of OS fundamentals or familiarity with open-source software development processes.
Pay
$166,600 and $250,700 USD base salary
Tools
distributed software systems, cloud architecture, consumer devices, networking, backend, infrastructure, OS
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