Software Engineering Manager - Siri Evaluation, Developer Workflows

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a senior team, stay hands‑on with architecture, and drive high‑impact delivery. You will shape design decisions, review code, and ensure quality across critical systems that enable reliable developer tooling.

The role emphasizes practical experience with LLMs or AI agents in real engineering workflows, strong communication, and cross‑functional leadership to move complex initiatives forward.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production software with hands‑on delivery.
• 2+ years leading engineers as manager or tech lead.
• Hands‑on today: set architecture, write design docs, review code.
• Practical experience applying LLMs/AI agents to engineering workflows.
• Experience with developer tooling, CI/CD, and ML platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small, senior team and stay deeply involved in code and architecture.
• Drive architectural decisions and design reviews across projects.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align delivery with strategy.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Team leadership

Architecture & design

LLMs/AI agents in workflows

Dev tooling & CI/CD

Tools

None

Job description

Description

Evaluation at Apple's scale is an engineering problem, not a reporting problem. Our internal customers need to know whether a change worked while they can still act on it. This team builds the systems that make that possible, driving the development of the tooling, services, and automation that enable a developer to go from a question about quality to a verified fix. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead a small, senior team and remain deeply in the code and architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building production software (e.g., Python, Swift, Go, or Java), with recent hands-on delivery.
• 2+ years leading engineers, as an engineering manager or as a tech lead responsible for a team's technical direction and delivery.
• Demonstrably hands-on today: you set architecture, write design documents, review code, and build.
• Practical experience applying LLMs or AI agents to real engineering workflows.
• Experience with developer tooling, test infrastructure, CI/CD, or evaluation and ML platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in agentic systems with human-in-the-loop review, and the reliability, cost, and trust problems they raise in production.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend services and APIs in production.
• Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, data platforms, or large-scale test and release infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Apple's development and testing toolchain, and with device automation.
• A track record of driving internal adoption of a platform.
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive quality decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Experience hiring and growing a team, including senior engineers.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills, and comfort operating in ambiguity.