Software Engineering Manager, Apple Services Engineering

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce - Subscriptions team powers the subscriptions platform behind all of Apple's services. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the evolution of Apple's subscription ecosystem, building and guiding a team that develops services and application components shared across applications. This role supports massive scale while maintaining high standards of reliability and security, contributing to architecture, design, and implementation of top-level user-visible features. The team operates the world's highest volume digital content store, serving billions of transactions daily across more than 155 countries.

Must Have

• Comfortable splitting time between hands-on coding and team leadership responsibilities
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, with a focus on technical growth and code quality
• Interest in growing engineering talent through 1:1s, career development conversations, and feedback
• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive code reviews and technical guidance to team members
• Ability to jump into debugging sessions and help unblock team members
• Comfortable taking ownership and providing technical direction, especially when requirements are ambiguous
• Strong object-oriented design skills with experience building maintainable, extensible systems
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable, secure RESTful web services
• Hands-on engineering skills with ability to write clean, well-documented, production-ready code
• Experience building reusable components, frameworks, or libraries that provide leverage across teams

Good to Have

• Prior engineering management experience is a plus, but not required for exceptional technical leaders
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques
• Expertise with NoSQL data stores like Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and debugging production systems

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses (including tuition) for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Option to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

The Apple Services Engineering Commerce - Subscriptions team powers the subscriptions platform behind all of Apple's services including Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud+, and subscriptions sold through the App Store. With over a billion active subscriptions driving Apple's services growth and revenue, we're dedicated to delivering best-in-class commerce experiences while creating a robust platform for our services and developers to monetize their businesses. Our Commerce team provides the transactional engine for the App Store, iTunes Music Store, Apple Music, iBook Store, Apple TV+, and more—operating the highest volume digital content store in the world, serving billions of transactions daily across more than 155 countries.

As an Engineering Manager on the ASE Commerce - Subscriptions team, you'll lead the evolution of Apple's subscription ecosystem in an increasingly competitive landscape. You'll build and guide a team that develops services and application components shared across applications, supporting massive scale while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and security. You'll contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of top-level user-visible features, with an emphasis on identifying reusable components across different scenarios and domains. Partnering with diverse cross-functional teams from across Apple, you'll tackle the stimulating challenges of building systems exposed to hundreds of millions of transacting users worldwide. If you want to make a difference and thrive in a fast-paced, rewarding environment where the best engineers collaborate to deliver fantastic products and features to our customers, this is the opportunity for you.

• Comfortable splitting time between hands-on coding and team leadership responsibilities
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, with a focus on technical growth and code quality
• Interest in growing engineering talent through 1:1s, career development conversations, and feedback
• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive code reviews and technical guidance to team members
• Ability to jump into debugging sessions and help unblock team members
• Comfortable taking ownership and providing technical direction, especially when requirements are ambiguous
• Strong object-oriented design skills with experience building maintainable, extensible systems
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable, secure RESTful web services
• Hands-on engineering skills with ability to write clean, well-documented, production-ready code
• Experience building reusable components, frameworks, or libraries that provide leverage across teams
• Experience with relational databases and ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, etc.)
• Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)
• Experience working in and navigating large, complex codebases
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Sound technical judgment with ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical fields

• Prior engineering management experience is a plus, but not required for exceptional technical leaders
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with Agile and Sprint Planning techniques
• Expertise with NoSQL data stores like Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Voldemort, etc.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and debugging production systems

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $198,300 and $342,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.