Sr. Engineering Manager - Block Storage, Apple Cloud Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
Software and Services
Apple Services Engineering is looking for a brilliant self starter to lead the Engineering teams for Block Storage. A great leader and engineer, and a visionary who can review, plan and execute key innovations and business processes that will deliver outstanding experiences for the users inside Apple - for virtualized infrastructure.
Description
Apple Services Engineering is looking for a leader to drive Engineering research and development for Block Storage platforms. This leader will be responsible for the software engineering and quality of business critical infrastructure for some of the biggest services in the world. The mission of the team is to build and deliver storage infrastructure inside Apple data centers. As a general purpose “disk” service, it will need to support workloads ranging from databases and ML/analytics frameworks to orchestration of large scale containerized and virtualized jobs. We are looking for a standout colleague who is able to take on problems under tight deadline constraints and deliver imaginative solutions.
This role will report to a staff leader of Virtualized Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Apple Services Engineering.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science and Engineering or related field
- 15+ years of industry experience
- Experience leading high-velocity cross-functional teams through vision and influence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organize, plan and deliver cross functionally against key milestones
- Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions that are maintainable, understandable and diagnosable
- Managing or running distributed systems and delivering internet services at scale
- Infrastructure expertise in key areas of storage, networks, CDNs
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the bottom layers of the storage software stack (Filesystem, Block Device, SSD)
- Highly technical, detail oriented, and not afraid to roll up the sleeves to drive architecture and solutions.
- Deeply cares about service delivery including reliability, operations and support
- Passionate about driving a vision, delivering results, execution, and being data-driven for measuring success
- Able to lead across organizational boundaries and reporting structures
- Ability to independently network, learn, and influence cross-functional teams both business and technical
- Deep sense of collaboration and known/appreciated capabilities of working with adjacent functions viz EPM, SRE, PM, Finance, Security
- Proven track record of mentoring and growing other engineers and managers
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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