About the role

What will you do at Apple?

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds and scales

the indexing infrastructure powering web and image search. The team runs both

petabyte-scale offline batch pipelines and near-real-time indexing systems that

turn web documents, images, and metadata into production-ready indexes. You’ll

lead engineers across distributed computing, data processing, and storage, while

partnering with crawling, ranking, ML, retrieval, and infrastructure teams to

shape the long-term indexing strategy. This is a cross-functional leadership

role requiring strong technical depth, organizational influence, and the ability

to drive complex, multi-team initiatives.

DESCRIPTION

You’ll own both technical direction and execution for two core systems:

large-scale offline indexing (distributed pipelines processing petabytes of

content into production indexes) and fresh/near-real-time indexing (low-latency

propagation of new or updated content).

Responsibilities

span architecture,
scalability, reliability, and efficiency across billions of documents and
images. Success requires close collaboration across teams to resolve
dependencies, make architecture tradeoffs, and drive large programs to
completion, while acting as a key liaison to senior leadership on strategy,
risks, and resourcing.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or data
infrastructure Engineering management experience leading software teams Strong
grasp of distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and storage
Experience with distributed batch processing (e.g., MapReduce-style models)
Track record leading multi-team technical initiatives and influencing without
direct authority Strong communication skills for technical topics with senior
leadership BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience with batch/streaming frameworks (Spark, Beam, Flink, Kafka, etc.)
Experience with distributed storage systems (Bigtable, HBase, Cassandra)
Background in search, information retrieval, or large-scale content processing
Experience with image processing, computer vision, or multimodal systems
Experience optimizing distributed systems for cost, latency, and throughput
Experience driving cross-org programs and presenting strategy to executive
leadership Track record developing senior engineers into technical leadership
roles

Which skills does this role require?

Engineering ManagementData InfrastructureBatch ProcessingScalabilitySystem ArchitectureReliability EngineeringSearch InfrastructureCross-functional CollaborationStrategic PlanningPerformance OptimizationMentorshipEngineering ManagerWeb IndexingData ProcessingBatch PipelinesNear-real-time IndexingMapReduceReliabilityEfficiencyCross-functionalArchitectureSoftware EngineeringMachine Learning

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