Data Platform SRE Engineering Manager

What you'll do

• Define and execute the reliability engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap for Apple Data Platform managed services.
• Lead day-to-day execution of reliability initiatives, including sprint planning, prioritization, and retrospectives.
• Establish and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide engineering trade-offs and reliability investments.
• Promote automation and operational efficiency through tooling, testing, deployment pipelines, and self-healing systems.
• Mentor and develop engineers through regular one-on-ones, career planning, and performance feedback.
• Collaborate with recruiting to attract and hire top reliability engineering talent.
• Manage production on-call rotations and incident response.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in a management role focused on leading, hiring, developing and building teams.
• Hands-on experience with reliability engineering, SRE, or large-scale production operations.
• Practical experience in Python, Golang, and/or Java.
• Knowledge of Linux, containers, virtualization, and standard networking protocols.
• Experience with Cloud Computing technologies, particularly Kubernetes.
• Understanding of SRE principles including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, and fault analysis.
• Proficiency with open source data analytics and processing technologies like Apache Spark, Flink, Trino, and Druid (preferred).