Data Platform SRE Manager

As the Senior Manager, you will shape the future of the Apple Data Platform SRE team by being both a product-centric and engineering-minded leader. You will be responsible for the quality of the customer experience in production and in the ideation, design, and development of what’s to come. You will have a proven ability to solve problems whether they require a rapid response or a long-term strategy. You will know when to make a critical decision or gain cross-functional consensus.
Responsibilities will include
• Building software and systems to manage services and applications through automation
• Deployment support and monitoring of existing and new services, platforms, and application stacks
• Measurement and optimization of service performance
• Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward and solve tomorrow’s problems, not just today’s

Minimum Qualifications
• 10 years of software engineering experience
• 5 years of software engineering management experience
• Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering disciplines

Preferred Qualifications
• Track record of building and running high-performance teams
• Experience with distributed systems in a production operations environment
• Advanced experience with programming and/or scripting languages (Golang, Python, Java, bash)
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture
• Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions that are easily maintainable, understandable, and diagnosable
• Able to write clear and consumable documentation
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work optimally across multiple business and technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality
• Extensive experience leading customer-facing systems in a high uptime 24/7 environment
• Passionate about leading a global 24/7 engineering organization
• A consistent track record of automation
• Lifelong learner who fosters diversity of thought in their approach to management

Core Skills: Python, Bash
Other Skills: Java
Seniority: Mid, Senior, Lead