Senior Software Engineering Manager, Energy Services

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$195,700–$338,400 / yr
Posted
87 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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 3497 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineering Manager, Energy Services

The Senior Software Engineering Manager, Energy Services leads a server platform engineering team of 11 engineers to build highly scalable, mission-critical distributed systems. This role involves owning the strategy, roadmap, and architectural direction for shared services and infrastructure that other teams adopt as foundational building blocks. You will manage hiring, performance, and coaching while maintaining technical credibility in architecture reviews and critical technical decisions. Key responsibilities include driving the adoption of agentic and generative AI tooling to accelerate engineering velocity and ensuring reliability, security, and compliance for production systems. The work focuses on the energy and sustainability domain, specifically supporting carbon neutral goals through systems for clean energy procurement, emissions tracking, and supply chain transparency within a regulated environment requiring strict data privacy.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $281300 from 43 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and communicate the team strategy, technical roadmap, and durable architecture decisions.
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management for a team of 11 engineers.
  • Maintain technical credibility by engaging deeply in architecture reviews and critical technical decisions.
  • Build shared services and infrastructure that other Apple teams can adopt and rely on.
  • Drive the team's adoption and fluency with agentic and generative AI tooling to accelerate delivery.
  • Operate and continuously improve mission-critical production distributed systems for reliability and security.
  • Partner with product, security, privacy, and compliance stakeholders to deliver high-standard solutions.

What we're looking for

  • BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of direct people management responsibility.
  • Proven track record of leading and growing high-performing software engineering teams of 10+ engineers.
  • Deep expertise in designing and operating mission-critical, highly scalable distributed systems at production scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to remain technically credible in architecture reviews and technical decisions without requiring day-to-day code review.
  • Strong background in security, compliance, and governance practices for enterprise-scale platform services.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, generative AI tooling, or LLM-integrated developer workflows (preferred).

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