Apple
Software Development Manager, Device Services
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years managing software or systems engineering teams.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Leads a nine-person, distributed engineering team responsible for operating and improving Apple’s shared physical device-testing infrastructure and delivering cross-team programs.
What you'll do
- Develops the team and supports performance and career growth.
- Improves planning, prioritization, on-call and incident practices to make delivery predictable and systems healthy.
- Guides technical decisions and coordinates infrastructure programs with partner teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years managing software or systems engineering teams, with a record of developing engineers.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure, including reliability, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and incident response.
- Experience applying AI and LLM-based tools to engineering and operational workflows and supporting team adoption.
- Proven ability to establish predictable execution under heavy operational load and lead concurrent programs with cross-team dependencies.
Nice to have
- Experience leading teams through significant change and reducing operational toil through consolidation or automation.
- Experience with full-stack teams, distributed teams, or the listed technology areas, including Linux and macOS, databases, Python, Go, or Ruby/Rails.
Pay
$206,200 and $356,400 (base salary range)
Tools
CI/CD, Linux, macOS, Python, Go, Ruby/Rails
AI focus
Applies AI and LLM-based tools to improve engineering and operational workflows and helps the team adopt them.
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