Engineering Manager - Platform Tech & Distributed Data Infra

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 356,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Information Security is seeking an extraordinary individual to lead the Platform Technologies team — an engineering team responsible for the foundational ecosystem and core capabilities that power our security monitoring. This role works with peer teams to ensure design, development, and delivery of platform capabilities at scale.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure, a track record of leading high‑performing

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years in software engineering management.
• Strong design, problem solving, and debugging with distributed systems or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Scala, Python, Go, Swift, or Java.
• Familiarity with indexing and search technologies like Lucene/Elasticsearch.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and managed services (AWS, etc.).
• Data governance, access control, and multi-tenant platform design.
• Exposure to GenAI or ML platform engineering, including vector databases or LLM tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Technologies team building foundational ecosystem for Apple’s security data platform.
• Own long-term technical vision while delivering near-term results across multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data architecture

Leadership

Java/Python/Scala/Go/Swift

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Apple Information Security is seeking an extraordinary individual to lead the Platform Technologies team — an engineering team responsible for the foundational ecosystem and core capabilities that power our security monitoring. This role works with peer teams to ensure design, development, and delivery of platform capabilities at scale.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure, a track record of leading high‑performing