Engineering Manager, CloudKit Infrastructure iCloud

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the systems that enable our cloud infrastructure to operate at scale with exceptional reliability integrity security and efficiency. This is a technically grounded role ideal for leaders passionate about distributed databases storage systems and building large-scale resilient will be working on CloudKit Apples foundational privacy-focused database platform which stores and syncs user data across all their Apple devices. It is the foundation of Apples signature cloud services such as Photos Drive Backup Notes Mail News and many third-party manages data at a truly massive scale! It is a strongly consistent database of structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. It is purposely built to be performant highly available and extremely scalable with privacy at its core. CloudKit empowers developers to build highly collaborative and secure applications.

As an engineering manager in CloudKit you will own the vision and roadmap for a core component of the CloudKit platform guiding foundational technologies that ensure data consistency recovery and self-healing. nnYou will lead a team that manages a wide surface area of projects by overseeing execution facilitating technical decisions guiding architectural directions scaling operational practices and developing the next generation of engineering leaders within iCloud.

Technical Excellence: Guide complex architectural decisions and contribute to hands-on development to maintain CloudKits reputation for data availability and Culture: Oversee development velocity code quality testing practices and release processes to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality Oversight: Support the availability durability and performance of production systems operating at Leadership: Define and execute the technical and infrastructure roadmap for CloudKit in collaboration with key Management: Build mentor and lead a high-performing engineering team focused on distributed databases job frameworks and cloud-native : Partner with cross-functional teams including site reliability engineering (SRE) and solutions engineering to ensure efficient and seamless integration of data-critical subsystems.

5 years of proven experience in software engineering with 3 years in engineering leadership building and operating large-scale multi-tenant distributed ability to manage multiple complex priorities in a fast-paced collaborative for building strong engineering cultures rooted in transparency mentorship and technical communication skills and ability to work across organizational operating in large complex organizations with high standards for quality and degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or an equivalent discipline.

Strong background in Java C C and programming in concurrent / multi-threaded background in NoSQL and key-value (KV) database technologies e.g. FoundationDB DynamoDB or in synchronous and asynchronous network application I/O frameworks e.g. Netty and fundamentals in relational storage systems e.g. schema design indexes and with orchestration and durable scheduling frameworks e.g. with event streaming and queueing systems e.g. using AWS GCP and cloud-native technologies e.g. Docker and with identity authentication and authorization systems at scale.