People at Apple don’t just build products. They craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do.

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with dedication to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries.

These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of our core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Apple Services Engineering’s Image Systems Team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of engineers responsible for business logic, core infrastructure, data pipelines, and our next generation of media creation workflows.

Our systems directly support customer facing features in Apple Music, Apple Books, Podcasts, and many other Apple media products. We build systems that facilitate the creation, scheduling, and publishing of editorial media for all of Apple’s platforms around the globe.

We are looking for a hands-on manager who is comfortable representing Editorial Media Services engineering team in partnering with other engineering teams that depend on our services, as well working cross functionally with business and program leaders. You must be technically grounded, and able to actively participate in cross-functional discussions to help guide our engineering initiatives forward and execute on engineering and business priorities.

In this role you will leverage your software engineering expertise to lead a team of talented engineers and assist in day to day responsibilities, including design of system architecture, mentoring your engineering team, setting priorities, and frequently presenting to partner teams. Strong communication skills and the ability deliver complex engineering projects on time.

Minimum of 7 years experience in a professional programming positionExtensive technical leadership or people management experience, leading engineering projects from inception to shipped softwareEnthusiasm for hands-on involvement in teamʼs technical workA deep sense of responsibility and pride in the teamʼs engineeringExperience with Java, SQL and relational database systemsExperience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra or MongoDBCommitment to automation and tooling as a critical part of the software lifecycleLove the idea of ownership and delivering amazing products