About the role
What will you do at Apple?
At Apple, great ideas quickly become phenomenal products, services, and customer
experiences. Join us in building the future of energy! One way we are making the
world better is our Apple 2030 initiative — a commitment to become carbon
neutral across our entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life
cycle by 2030, including the electricity used to power Apple devices. We build
robust, highly scalable services that support this mission, working across
distributed systems, security, and privacy with a focus on reliability and
disruptive, meaningful impact.
DESCRIPTION
In this role, you will
- own the strategy, roadmap, and architectural direction
- for a server platform engineering team of 11 engineers, delivering highly
- scalable, mission-critical distributed systems in support of Apple's
- sustainability goals. You will directly lead this team, staying technically
- credible in the underlying code and architecture while driving hiring, growth,
- and a culture of technical excellence and accountability. You will be
- cultivating your team's fluency with agentic and generative AI tooling — driving
- adoption to accelerate delivery velocity and sustain a competitive edge.
- MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven track record of building, leading, and growing high-performing software
- engineering teams in control of their production environment 10+ years of
- software engineering experience, including 5+ years in direct people management
- responsibility, with experience leading a team of comparable size (10+
- engineers) and accountability for team-wide technical and people outcomes Deep
- expertise in designing and operating mission-critical, highly scalable
- distributed systems at production scale Demonstrated ability to remain
- technically credible across your team's systems — engaging in architecture
- reviews and technical decisions at a level of depth that earns the trust of
- senior engineers, without requiring hands-on code review Experience with hiring
- pipelines, performance management, career development frameworks, and building
- inclusive team culture Strong background in security, compliance, and governance
- practices relevant to enterprise-scale platform services Track record of
- influencing cross-functional partners and driving alignment across engineering,
- product, and operations organizations Proficiency with platform-oriented
- engineering — designing services and infrastructure that other teams adopt as
- foundational building blocks BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work
- experience
- PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, generative AI tooling, or
- LLM-integrated developer workflows in a production or near-production context
- Familiarity with energy, sustainability, or carbon accounting domains —
- including clean energy procurement, emissions tracking, or supply chain
- transparency systems Skilled in driving organizational AI fluency — rolling out
- AI-assisted development practices, evaluating tooling, and sustaining adoption
- over time Experience operating infrastructure in regulated environments with
- strict data privacy and compliance requirements Background in building internal
- developer platforms or shared services adopted broadly across a large
- engineering organization Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous,
- high-stakes business goals into concrete technical strategy and executable
- roadmaps
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