Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Internal Tools

At Apple great ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customernexperiences. Were looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our Internal Engineering Tools organization and help shape the future of how engineering teams build operate and innovate at this role youll lead a talented team responsible for developing the platforms applications and AI-powered capabilities that empower engineering teams and programmers. Youll combine technical leadership organizational influence and a passion for building exceptional teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve developer productivity streamline workflows and accelerate innovation across the video engineering ecosystem.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for building mission-critical internal tools and platforms. nnYou will provide both strategic direction and hands-on technical leadership partnering closely with engineering product design operations and AI teams to define roadmaps deliver impactful solutions and continuously improve the developer experience across the organization.

Lead mentor and grow a high-performing software engineering team fostering a culture of technical excellence innovation collaboration and continuous with cross-functional partners to design build and deliver scalable reliable and secure Internal tools and platforms that improve engineering and integrate AI-powered capabilities that automate workflows enhance decision-making and unlock insights from complex engineering and operational and drive clear intake prioritization planning roadmap and execution processes for a team supporting multiple stakeholder groups and strategic as a trusted technical leader by guiding architecture design implementation and validation while influencing engineering decisions across user research and partner closely with engineering teams to identify pain points validate solutions and prioritize investments based on measurable developer platform evolution by improving reliability scalability maintainability and performance while balancing technical debt operational excellence and build-versus-buy engineering best practices including code reviews testing strategies CI/CD operational readiness observability and quality standards that enable long-term all engineering solutions comply with Apples security privacy accessibility and operational opportunities to create shared platforms and organization-wide solutions that reducenduplication increase efficiency and enable teams to move faster.

10 years of experience in a leadership role managing software engineering experience leading lean software engineering teams across multiple concurrent cross-functional initiatives while consistently delivering high-quality experience as a software engineer with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and engineering best hands-on experience as a software engineer with a strong foundation in software architecture modern development practices and the full software development success coaching mentoring and developing engineers and engineering leaders fostering technical excellence and career establishing engineering operating models including intake prioritization roadmap planning resource allocation and execution across multiple stakeholder leading teams that leverage Generative AI both to accelerate software development and to build AI-powered products and capabilities that solve business technical judgment across software architecture cloud platforms distributed systems and modern web technologies with the ability to evaluate trade-offs and guide teams through design implementation validation and operational communication collaboration and stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to build trusted partnerships influence technical direction and navigate complex organizational balancing competing priorities while creating scalable lightweight processes that improve execution transparency and organizational degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Experience building and scaling internal developer tools engineering platforms or workflow automation designing and deploying AI- and ML-powered solutions including large language model (LLM) applications and intelligent with multiple programming languages and technology stacks such as Java React leading distributed or globally dispersed engineering track record of driving engineering process improvements operational excellence and platform defining technical strategy influencing architectural decisions and delivering organization-wide engineering business acumen with the ability to translate organizational needs into scalable technical for building inclusive collaborative and high-performing engineering degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related technical field is preferred.