Software Engineering Manager, Partner & Release Management
$228.1k/y-$342.8k/y
Applea day ago
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Summary
Apple is seeking a Software Engineering Manager, Partner & Release Management to join their Cloud Infrastructure team in Sunnyvale, CA. The role involves leading cross-functional partnerships and driving quality and automation strategies for Apple's cloud platform delivery.
About the Role
As the Integration Engineering Manager, you will coordinate between Apple's platform engineering teams and ensure that partner team integrations are well-defined and delivered with high reliability and quality. You will manage the full lifecycle of partner integration engagements, build release automation pipelines, and promote engineering excellence across integration and quality disciplines.
About You
Required:
- 8 years of hands-on experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role with people management responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional integration programs involving multiple partner engineering teams.
- Proven track record working with infrastructure or platform teams in areas such as Compute, container orchestration (Kubernetes) or networking.
- Strong understanding of integration patterns, API design, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and quality engineering practices.
Preferred:
- Experience with Kubernetes, Open Stack, service mesh technologies (e.g., Envoy, Istio, Linkerd) and their integration into platform ecosystems.
- Broad experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
- Experience building or scaling quality engineering functions including automated integration testing, chaos engineering, or contract testing frameworks.
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, meet aggressive deadlines, and drive complex cross-team initiatives to completion.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform automation tooling.
Benefits
- Base pay range between $228,100 and $342,800.
- Opportunity to participate in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- Discounted products and free services.
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses related to career advancement.
- Potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
Apple
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Visit apple.com/careers to learn more.
Sunnyvale, CA