Engineering Manager, Object Storage - Apple Cloud

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: 8 Nov 2024
Weekly Hours: 35
Role Number:200577769
Join the Apple Cloud Object Store team, a key part of Apple’s data storage infrastructure, as an Engineering Manager. The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is responsible for building and running the cloud infrastructure used across Apple and the server systems and platforms underpinning many of our Services. Our cloud infrastructure brings together foundational technologies in compute, storage, data, traffic, and security into a unified Apple Cloud platform available to all engineering teams at Apple. You will lead a team in London, responsible for developing and maintaining an in-house exabyte-scale storage system that powers Apple’s global services. As a highly technical manager, you will also make personal technical contributions.

DESCRIPTION

Your team will own features from design to implementation, and will collaborate with other teams to run the service and define the roadmap. Examples of fascinating technical challenges in our project are: * designing redundancy mechanisms that will guarantee durability and availability despite hardware failure (which happen constantly at our scale) * searching for bottlenecks in a complex system and making sure to focus optimization efforts on high-impact areas * selecting the best hardware components to match our needs * designing a storage system that will match requirements of hundreds of customers with diverse traffic patterns In this role, you will * Lead a medium-sized team of engineers in London, providing coaching throughout the software development lifecycle, from idea evaluation to feature implementation. * Collaborate with your team to set career goals and foster growth opportunities. * Make personal technical contributions deep in the code. Help raise the bar for code quality and technical excellence by influencing your team and teams around you. * Lead various planning efforts, including sprints, quarterly, and yearly planning. Partner with teams to define product priorities and influence long-term technical decisions to build a reliable and maintainable product.

• Experience as a backend software engineer
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals: networking, filesystems, and security concepts

• Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skillsHands-on experience with Java or a similar language like C#

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience as a software engineering manager
• Good understanding of distributed systems and data storage architectures
• Experience writing high-performance software
• Experience developing large-scale services

• Experience as a backend software engineer
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals: networking, filesystems, and security concepts
• Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skillsHands-on experience with Java or a similar language like C