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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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First seen Oct 30, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)