CloudKit Infrastructure Lead — Scale & Reliability

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock plans

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead CloudKit infrastructure teams responsible for scalable, reliable data storage across Apple devices.

You will own the vision and roadmap for a core CloudKit component, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and solutions teams to deliver high availability and privacy-focused services at multitenant scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, multi-tenant environment.
• Strong leadership, mentorship, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide architectural decisions and contribute to hands-on development.
• Oversee delivery velocity, code quality, tests, and releases.
• Ensure availability, durability, and performance of production systems.
• Define and execute CloudKit infrastructure roadmap with partners.
• Build and lead a high-performing team focused on distributed databases and cloud-native infra.
• Collaborate with SRE and solutions engineering for data-critical subsystems.

Skills

Java

C

C++

Concurrent programming

NoSQL

Kafka

AWS/GCP

Netty

gRPC

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

FoundationDB/DynamoDB/Cassandra

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent discipline

Tools

Netty

gRPC

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

FoundationDB

DynamoDB

Cassandra

Kafka

Job description

Apple Inc. in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead CloudKit infrastructure teams responsible for scalable, reliable data storage across Apple devices.

You will own the vision and roadmap for a core CloudKit component, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SRE and solutions teams to deliver high availability and privacy-focused services at multitenant scale.