Sr. Engineering Manager, ASE Efficiency

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 402,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Education reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive medical and dental

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Demand Management within the ASE Efficiency group.

You will build the engineering team, platforms, and practices to understand, validate, and optimize infrastructure demand while protecting reliability and performance. You will stay hands-on through architecture reviews, demand modeling, telemetry analysis, and capacity validation while guiding strategic investments across compute, memory, storage, and networking.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, capacity engineering, or related technical experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers/senior technical leaders.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure management.
• Strong software engineering background and experience building/operating production systems, platforms, tooling, or automation.
• Ability to reason about architectures and distributed systems across compute, memory, storage, networking, databases, and containers.
• Strong analytical judgment using telemetry, utilization, and performance data.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and drive adoption across boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders and ability to explain technical/financial tradeoffs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy, direction, roadmap, and operating model for Demand Management across ASE Efficiency.
• Lead and grow an org of ~12 ICs and one Engineering Manager; hire and develop engineers and leaders.
• Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, demand modeling, telemetry analysis, and capacity validation.
• Translate product launches and growth into measurable infrastructure demand.
• Build scalable software, tooling, and automation for demand capture, BOM definition, inventory visibility, and prioritization.
• Ensure demand entering planning is technically validated and contextually justified.
• Partner with Forecasting to separate demand types and with Foundation on data quality and tooling.
• Identify capacity risks and improve architecture, configuration, and utilization while preserving reliability.
• Measure demand accuracy, planning fidelity, and efficiency; feed results back into planning.
• Coordinate with Finance/Procurement/Business to align demand with funding and timelines.

Skills

Software engineering

Infrastructure engineering

SRE

Capacity engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Telemetry analytics

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Observability platforms

Job description

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Apple is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Demand Management within Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Efficiency group. You will build the engineering team, software platforms, and practices that help large-scale services understand, validate, and optimize infrastructure demand while protecting reliability, performance, and scalability. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will work alongside engineers on service architectures, demand models, forecasting, telemetry, and capacity decisions, and connect technical findings to infrastructure investment priorities.

Description

ASE Efficiency is building a closed-loop approach to infrastructure efficiency across three functions: Demand Management, Forecasting, and Foundation. Demand Management connects application and business needs to validated, explainable infrastructure requirements. Your team will partner with service owners to understand architectures, dependencies, workload behavior, product launches, and growth. You will translate these inputs into resource requirements and bills of materials (BOMs) across compute, memory, storage, networking, and shared platforms, accounting for inventory, utilization targets, resilience, and operational risk. You will own the strategy and execution of Demand Management across multiple organizations and lines of business. Working with Forecasting and Foundation, you will connect validated demand to forecasts, trusted telemetry, and planning tools, then use actual utilization and service outcomes to improve future decisions. Your team will make the drivers, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs behind infrastructure investments clear to engineering and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy, technical direction, roadmap, and operating model for Demand Management across ASE Efficiency.
• Lead and grow an organization of approximately 12 individual contributors and one Engineering Manager. Hire, coach, and develop engineers, managers, and senior technical leaders.
• Remain technically hands-on through architecture reviews, demand modeling, telemetry analysis, and capacity validation, working through difficult technical problems alongside the team.
• Establish repeatable methods for translating product launches, customer and usage growth, workload characteristics, and resilience requirements into measurable infrastructure demand.
• Build scalable software, tooling, and automation for demand capture, validation, BOM definition, inventory visibility, prioritization, and exception handling. Drive adoption across service teams.
• Ensure demand entering planning and procurement is technically validated, attributable to clear drivers, and supported by explicit assumptions and business and financial context.
• Partner with Forecasting to separate feature-driven demand, organic growth, and operational uncertainty. Work with Foundation on data quality, telemetry, attribution, and tooling for capacity decisions.
• Identify capacity risks and drive improvements in application architecture, configuration, resource allocation, and utilization while preserving service reliability and performance.
• Measure demand accuracy, planning fidelity, utilization, adoption, and efficiency outcomes. Distinguish modeled opportunities from verified capacity reductions and realized financial savings, and feed results back into planning.
• Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, SRE, procurement, and business teams to align validated demand with funding, supply constraints, and delivery timelines. Communicate portfolio-level investment priorities, tradeoffs, and risks to senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, capacity engineering, or related technical experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and/or senior technical leaders, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure management.
• Strong software engineering background and experience building or operating production systems, platforms, tooling, or automation used by multiple engineering organizations.
• Ability to reason deeply about application architectures and distributed systems across compute, memory, storage, networking, databases, and containerized environments, and connect workload behavior to infrastructure requirements.
• Strong analytical judgment and experience using telemetry, utilization, and performance data to validate requirements and guide engineering decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy, establish engineering standards, and drive adoption across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with experience influencing senior engineering, infrastructure, finance, and business stakeholders and explaining technical and financial tradeoffs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading capacity management, infrastructure efficiency, performance engineering, demand forecasting, FinOps, or resource management teams.
• Experience connecting product roadmaps, feature launches, customer growth, and business forecasts to infrastructure planning for large-scale consumer or cloud services.
• Experience developing capacity modeling, forecasting, automated sizing, optimization, or infrastructure intelligence platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, distributed data systems, storage platforms, traffic management, or observability systems, including data quality and attribution across shared infrastructure.
• Understanding of infrastructure economics and supply chains, including capital investment, cloud spend, cost attribution, procurement, hardware deployment, and data center constraints.
• Experience applying machine learning, GenAI, or LLM-assisted tooling to infrastructure analysis, automation, forecasting, or engineering productivity.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $267,800 and $401,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
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