Apple
Sr Engineering Manager - Services Special Projects
$238K–$402K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of professional software development experience; 8+ years of people management experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating a new, large-scale distributed service, including production ML model serving and cross-functional technical direction.
What you'll do
- Hire, lead, mentor, and grow a team of distributed systems engineers.
- Set architecture and deliver scalable, reliable distributed systems and microservices.
- Operationalize ML workloads and partner on service reliability, data strategy, and APIs.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- 8+ years of people management experience leading senior backend or distributed systems engineers.
- Proven track record taking a new service from concept to production at scale and owning its long-term operation.
- Experience deploying and operating ML models or ML-powered services in production environments.
Nice to have
- Experience building search, ranking, recommendation, or personalization systems.
- Hands-on experience serving and optimizing LLMs or ML models in the request path, including GPU-backed inference at scale.
Pay
$237,600 and $401,700 USD base salary
Tools
Java/JVM, Spring Boot, Netty, Project Reactor, gRPC, Kafka, Redis, AWS or GCP
AI focus
Lead production deployment and operation of ML workloads, including reliable model serving and inference in the request path.
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