AI-Driven Compute Infra Engineering Manager

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 238,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Tuition reimbursement and relocation

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager for ASE Compute in Cupertino to lead infrastructure and SRE efforts at scale. You will manage a multi-geography team responsible for core compute controllers, proxy services, and job execution agents to ensure high availability and performance.

You will drive capacity planning, incident management, release engineering, observability, and modernization while championing AI-enabled automation across the platform.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering teams.
• Proven track record leading on-call organizations with structured incident management, escalation procedures, and post-incident reviews.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, compute orchestration, and scale provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-powered tooling and automation to improve incident triage and operational toil.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Software and SRE engineers across geographies.
• Establish and maintain a 24/7 on-call rotation with clear escalation paths and SLAs.
• Oversee release engineering and deployment automation including CI/CD pipelines and canary deployments.
• Manage modernization initiatives including Kubernetes control plane operations and migrations.
• Drive incident management excellence with post-incident reviews and production readiness.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud infrastructure

SRE principles

Incident management

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

KVM/hypervisor

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

Salt

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager for ASE Compute in Cupertino to lead infrastructure and SRE efforts at scale. You will manage a multi-geography team responsible for core compute controllers, proxy services, and job execution agents to ensure high availability and performance.

You will drive capacity planning, incident management, release engineering, observability, and modernization while championing AI-enabled automation across the platform.