Senior Engineering Manager, Real-Time Sports Analytics

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the Live Sports and Media Analytics team in Seattle. You will guide engineers building scalable, near real-time data systems for sports, video, and audio streams that power production, marketing, royalties, and partner reporting.

Define the tech strategy, mentor talent, and collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to deliver high-impact analytics solutions while ensuring quality, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for Live Sports and Media analytics.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements.
• Architect and deliver highly scalable near real-time analytics systems.
• Partner with peers, quality engineering, SRE to deliver and operate high quality data solutions.
• Constantly measure and improve data quality, system reliability, performance and efficiency.
• Mentoring and developing engineering talent and their growth.
• Represent team vision and roadmap to senior leadership and lead through ambiguity.
• Foster innovation first inclusive engineering culture with strong accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Data engineering

Communication

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Iceberg

StarRocks

OpenCV

VLM

Object Detection

Speech to Text

Job description

Apple seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the Live Sports and Media Analytics team in Seattle. You will guide engineers building scalable, near real-time data systems for sports, video, and audio streams that power production, marketing, royalties, and partner reporting.

Define the tech strategy, mentor talent, and collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to deliver high-impact analytics solutions while ensuring quality, reliability, and performance.