Apple
SRE Manager, Apple Services Engineering
$226K–$338K
Seattle, Washington · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years managing or leading engineering or SRE teams. The operating-services experience requirement is listed as “+ years” with no number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads an SRE team responsible for the reliability, operations, and performance of Apple’s customer-facing cloud services, combining technical direction with people leadership.
What you'll do
- Own service reliability, technical direction, incident response, and production improvements.
- Plan roadmaps and resourcing; track service health and communicate plans and status to leadership and partner teams.
- Hire, manage, and develop engineers, while building strong partnerships with engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 2+ years managing or leading engineering or SRE teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Hands-on technical-lead experience for a production service or team, including operating and improving distributed customer-facing production services at scale.
- Experience with safe release and deployment practices, configuration management, capacity planning, scale testing, disaster recovery, and observability.
- Fluency in at least one of Java, Python, or Go; bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, service proxies and load balancing, messaging and caching systems, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous-delivery tooling.
- Experience with cross-team standardization or organization-wide process and tooling initiatives; automation or AI-assisted workflows to reduce toil.
Pay
USD $225,600 and $338,400 (base pay range)
Tools
Java, Python, Go, Kubernetes
AI focus
Preferred experience includes using automation or AI-assisted workflows to reduce toil and improve operational outcomes.
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