Apple
Software Engineering Manager - Platform Technologies, AIS
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years of management experience leading software engineering teams.
About the job
Leads the Platform Technologies engineering team building foundational infrastructure and capabilities for Apple’s security data platform and monitoring.
What you'll do
- Lead the team designing and developing platform infrastructure, query and indexing capabilities, libraries, APIs, and data integration services.
- Set long-term technical direction while delivering near-term results and production-grade platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and partner organizations across Apple.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years of management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience in distributed systems or large-scale data infrastructure, with strong software design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
- Proficiency in one or more of Scala, Python, Go, Swift, or Java.
- Experience building or operating data lake, lakehouse, or large-scale analytics platforms; proven record of shipping production-grade services and platforms.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Apache Lucene or Elasticsearch; experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Exposure to GenAI or ML platform engineering, including vector databases, RAG architectures, or LLM-based tooling.
Pay
$206,200 and $356,400 USD base salary
Tools
Scala, Python, Go, Swift, Java, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake
AI focus
Preferred exposure to GenAI or ML platform engineering, including vector databases, RAG architectures, or LLM-based tooling.
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