Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform Technologies

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple great ideas have a way of becoming great products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could Apple the information powering Siri Spotlight Apple Maps and Apples foundation models doesnt appear by magic it is harvested continuously from the live web by one of the most demanding distributed crawl platforms in the industry. As Engineering Manager for the Crawl Infrastructure team you will lead the people and systems responsible for operating a web crawl at petabyte scale and billions of operations per day feeding the intelligence layer behind Apples most-used products and the foundation models at the core of Apple role is for a manager who is technically deep operationally rigorous and energized by the challenge of scaling complex distributed systems while growing the engineers around them. You will partner closely with teams across Apple to align infrastructure investment with Apples most strategic AI and search initiatives.

Apples web crawl infrastructure is a mission-critical distributed platform that continuously fetches renders and extracts structured knowledge from billions of web pages directly powering Siri Apple Intelligence Spotlight u0026 Safari. As Engineering Manager for this team you will lead a group of high performing distributed systems engineers building and operating one of Apples most complex and consequential data collection is a role for a technically deep manager who can hold the architectural vision for a multi-service pipeline grow a high-performing team and partner with downstream product and ML teams to translate real-world knowledge requirements into engineering reality. You will be responsible for building technical roadmap balancing reliability improvements feature velocity and platform should be equally comfortable in a production incident war room stakeholder communication meeting and a system design review.

8 years of software engineering experience with 3 years of engineering management experience leading distributed systems engineers in a production environment. Track record of managing senior engineers setting technical direction running design reviews and raising the bar on engineering to drive large multi-quarter projects end-to-end scoping sequencing staffing and delivering against a designing and operating large scale distributed systems you have personally designed built and operated large-scale distributed with cloud infrastructure at scale AWS or equivalent Kubernetes IaC with data pipeline infrastructure streaming (Flink) batch (Spark) and columnar storage (Iceberg or equivalent).nStrong programming background in one of the programming languages preferred in Rust Scala or or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Prior experience with web crawl systems is a plus (URL frontier management politeness rate limiting crawl scheduling ).