Apple
Sr Manager - Infrastructure, SRE, & AI Platforms - Services Special Projects
$238K–$402K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership; 6+ years managing multi-layered engineering organizations.
- Education
- MS degree in Computer Science or a related degree.
About the job
Leads strategy, architecture, and operations for Apple’s global infrastructure and AI platforms, including distributed engineering teams and mission-critical services.
What you'll do
- Define long-term technical strategy and investment roadmaps for compute, storage, networking, observability, and AI infrastructure.
- Oversee AI training and inference platforms, Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud compute, data platforms, networking, and security.
- Lead global engineering teams and establish SRE, reliability, capacity-planning, and automation practices.
What they ask for
- MS degree in Computer Science or a related degree.
- 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership building, scaling, and operating mission-critical infrastructure platforms and global services.
- 6+ years managing multi-layered engineering organizations, with experience hiring, developing, and retaining technical talent across global sites.
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, AI/ML infrastructure, SRE, and high-availability production operations.
Nice to have
- Experience leading infrastructure or platform SRE at a global, tier-1 technology organization.
- Experience overseeing diverse database and data infrastructure, or managing infrastructure investment, budgets, and capacity forecasting.
Pay
$237,600 and $401,700 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, AWS, GCP, Cassandra, FoundationDB, Redis
AI focus
Architect, scale, and optimize infrastructure for AI/ML training and inference, including scheduling, utilization, storage, networking, and capacity planning.
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