Engineering Manager (Data Platform)

Apple’s Data Platform team is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a small, high-impact team building distributed data infrastructure at Apple scale. This team owns a multi-tiered data fabric powering critical AI/ML workloads — handling data placement, replication, and lifecycle management across multi-cloud and multi-datacenter environments. What you’ll do - Lead and grow a team of strong engineers working on distributed systems - Drive technical direction and execution for large-scale data infrastructure - Partner cross-functionally to support AI/ML platform needs across Apple - Stay hands-on in architecture, design reviews, and problem solving What we’re looking for - Strong background in distributed systems / infrastructure - Experience managing and developing engineering teams - Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment - Comfortable going deep technically (this is not a “pure manager” role) Tech stack / environment - Systems programming (R