Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$254,400–$381,600 / yr
Posted
119 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $318k
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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering

As a Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - iCloud, you will lead multiple engineering teams within the iCloud and Apple Services Engineering organization. You will be responsible for building and operating large-scale distributed systems that manage multi-tenant, globally distributed infrastructure. Your daily work involves setting technical direction, guiding architectural decisions, and translating organizational priorities into actionable roadmaps to improve platform reliability and developer experience. You will build platforms that enable self-service provisioning while reducing operational burdens through automation, policy as code, and resource governance. The role requires expertise in control plane architectures, service-oriented design, API-driven systems, and container orchestration like Kubernetes. You will also manage identity, authentication, authorization, and observability practices including SLO/SLI frameworks and distributed tracing to ensure high availability for the cloud infrastructure supporting billions of customers.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 35 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead multiple engineering teams building and operating large-scale distributed systems for globally distributed infrastructure.
  • Set technical direction by guiding architectural decisions and managing complex system trade-offs.
  • Translate organizational priorities into clear technical roadmaps, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
  • Build platforms that enable self-service infrastructure provisioning to reduce operational burdens on product teams.
  • Establish and scale operational rigor through best practices in observability, testing, deployment, and incident management.
  • Recruit, grow, and retain talented engineers while developing a strong leadership bench of managers.
  • Drive efficiency and cost optimization through automation, policy as code, and resource governance.
  • Communicate technical risks and strategic trade-offs to senior leadership to inform high-level decision making.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience in software engineering and leading teams of both individual contributors and managers.
  • Experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of control plane architectures, service-oriented design, and API-driven systems.
  • Track record of shipping highly reliable production systems in high-availability environments.
  • Experience leading incident management, on-call operations, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Ability to drive alignment and execution across multiple teams in complex, matrixed environments.
  • Strong technical depth to engage in architecture and design discussions with senior engineers.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes, identity systems, and internal developer platforms.

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