Software Engineering Manager — ASE Media Processing Infrastructure

At Apple great ideas quickly become phenomenal products services and customer experiences. Join us in powering the global media experiences loved by millions! Our Media Processing Infrastructure team designs builds and operates the scalable resilient and high-performance workflow platforms that ingest process and transcode rich audio and video at massive scale. nnOur portfolio spans from lightweight App Store previews to multi-terabyte feature film sources powering flagship Apple services including Apple TV Apple TV Channels Apple Fitness Apple Original Films u0026 TV Apple Music Video hosted Apple Podcasts and live linear streaming orchestration. We build robust distributed systems that process media flawlessly focusing on reliability extreme performance and disruptive engineering excellence.

In this role you will lead a high-caliber team responsible for the core workflow and distributed transcoding infrastructure that power Apples media ecosystem. You will own the strategy technical roadmap and architectural direction for systems managing exponentially growing asset volumes and workflow complexity across both VOD (including sports VOD and clips) and live linear streaming services. nnAs a hands-on technical manager you will remain deeply credible in the underlying architecture and distributed Java backend systems while fostering a culture of ownership operational rigor and continuous growth. You will also champion modern engineering velocity by cultivating your teams fluency with agentic and generative AI toolingdriving adoption to accelerate delivery and set a new standard for engineering excellence.

Lead hiring onboarding mentoring and performance management to build retain and inspire a world-class inclusive engineering and communicate the teams technical vision architectural roadmap and execution strategy aligned with broader Apple Media Services deep technical credibility across distributed Java backend services media pipelines and storage/caching layersguiding critical architecture decisions and high-scale design the evolution of our high-performance asset cache solution and media orchestration engines expanding them as foundational platform offerings adopted across and harden infrastructure to handle rapid growth in both asset volume and workflow complexity across VOD sports highlights and live linear your teams adoption and sustained fluency with generative and agentic AI tooling to elevate engineering velocity code quality and testing shape AI-assisted developer workflows within the team and champion best practices across the broader closely with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering Product Project Management Operations and SRE to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery and high system operational excellence and reliability ensuring mission-critical production pipelines maintain world-class resilience low latency and fault tolerance.

5 years of software engineering experience designing building and operating mission-critical highly scalable distributed systems at production track record of building leading and mentoring high-performing software engineering teams with direct people management technical expertise in Java and modern backend distributed system architectures (concurrency distributed caching asynchronous messaging and workflow orchestration).nDemonstrated ability to remain technically credible across complex systemsengaging in architectural reviews and deep-dive technical discussions that earn the trust of senior track record of partnering cross-functionally and driving alignment across engineering project management operations and SRE experience with platform-oriented engineeringdesigning reusable scalable infrastructure and APIs that serve as dependable foundations for other Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Prior experience in direct people management leading teams of 5 engineers in a fast-paced platform or infrastructure -on experience with agentic AI frameworks generative AI tooling or LLM-integrated developer workflows applied to production software in fostering organizational AI fluencyevaluating developer tooling establishing modern workflows and driving sustained adoption across an engineering with large-scale media processing pipelines video transcoding technologies (e.g. HEVC HDR stereoscopic video) or live streaming linear background building and scaling distributed caching tiers or high-throughput asset storage solutions adopted broadly across an enterprise ability to translate ambiguous high-scale media requirements into robust technical roadmaps and durable platform architectures.