Sr. Platform Engineering Leader, Apple Services Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
Software and Services
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 Analytics Platforms & Experiences team is at the forefront of revolutionizing data engineering, driving significant increases in efficiency and productivity through a seamless ecosystem of frameworks and products that unlock observability, knowledge and data quality driven orchestration at scale.
As part of the broader Apple Services Engineering division that powers App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, Fitness+, the iTunes Store and more, our team also bridges data engineering with insights and analytics by providing interactive data solutions that amplify the collective potential of datasets, enabling analytics and actionable insights.
We achieve Apple scale with a commitment to intelligent efficiency in our use of compute resources, storage and bandwidth, partnering closely with machine learning experts. This scale presents a challenge and opportunity that apply to only few companies in the world.
We are seeking a seasoned engineering leader who can navigate shifting complexity of open source and internal systems into a cohesive, empowering product. Leveraging your successful leadership track record, you'll be tasked with understanding and redefining customer interactions with our technology, transforming disparate experiences into a unified and flexible solution that improves user experience while maintaining simplicity at its core.
Key Qualifications
- Leadership and Management: Over a decade of experience leading and managing diverse teams, with a proven track record in fostering cross-organizational collaboration to achieve high-impact results.
- Leadership Development: Demonstrated success in mentoring managers and individuals to evolve into high-performing leaders, with a focus on delivering transformative results across various teams and organizational structures.
- Strategic Alignment: Exceptional ability to synchronize engineering initiatives with overarching company goals, underpinned by a deep understanding of the strategic implications of technical decisions.
- Technical Strategy Integration: Distinct expertise in connecting technical team efforts with broad organizational strategies, ensuring engineering projects are in alignment with key business objectives.
- Big Data Architectural Expertise: Proven capability in designing and deploying comprehensive big data solutions that prioritize a unified user experience. This includes integrating a spectrum of big data technologies, platforms, and tools to streamline data handling processes from ingestion to insight generation, underpinned by scalable, high-efficiency data architectures that demystify complex interactions and enhance accessibility to critical insights.
Description
This role entails leading a dynamic team based in Seattle, tasked with developing a state-of-the-art observability data platform and warehouse. This system is designed to provide near real-time insights, facilitating deep data engineering queries, expediting diagnostic processes and issue resolution for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and providing a crtical foundation for our Observability reporting capabilities. A key aspect of this position involves fostering collaborative partnerships with various platform teams to ensure a seamless data integration process.
As a distinguished technical leader, the successful candidate will be encouraged to establish and maintain trustful working relationships with Directors, Senior Directors, and Vice Presidents, as well as with peers across multiple engineering disciplines, contributing teams, and key stakeholders.
Furthermore, a significant responsibility of this role includes nurturing the growth and development of both engineering managers and engineers within the team. This involves creating opportunities for enhancing their technical capabilities, refining their leadership skills, and continuing the cultivation of a high-caliber, innovative engineering culture.
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline required.