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 patternsIn 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience as a backend software engineer
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals: networking, filesystems, and security concepts
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Hands-on experience with Java or a similar language like C#
- Experience as a software engineering manager
- Good understanding of distributed systems and data storage architectures
- Experience writing high-performance software
