Sr. Engineering Leader, Apple Services Engineering

Cupertino,California,United States

Software and Services

Imagine what you can do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you can accomplish. The people who work at Apple have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and Vision Pro. We have done the same with Services, including with iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is seeking a seasoned Engineering Leader to oversee a distributed and well-respected engineering team that is driving Rights and Pricing engineering for Apple Services. We’re looking for an exceptional leader with a proven track record of managing complex technical and business initiatives under demanding timelines. This precision team builds the systems that power all of the economics behind the App Store, Apple Music, TV/TV+, Podcast, Apple Books, Fitness+, and much more; ensuring that artists, creators, developers, rights-holders, and governments are sharing in the monetization of Apple Services’ ecosystem.

Description

You will be responsible for the underlying systems that manage digital contracts and provider set up; compute availability over hundreds of millions of products in 175+ territories on multiple platforms; perform retail/wholesale/tax calculations at scale; and ensure compliance with laws worldwide. As a hands-on engineering leader, you will personally drive features as well as provide overall software architecture direction for the platform. You will engage with Product, Business, Legal, Operations, and Engineering leadership and cross-functional peers to develop and support new features for Apple customers & content providers. Your team will invest in the modernization of the platform and build world-class tooling to manage the complexity and continue to scale the platform to support the subscription economics across multiple lines of business. You will drive a culture of quality and precision, making platform investments that help the team scale the output and anticipate the needs of businesses. You will represent engineering in cross-functional meetings and collaborate on roadmap planning to decide the optimal order of execution for multiple stakeholders and react to changes across the portfolio. You take responsibility; you feel a personal stake in the product you ship; you communicate how things work; you thrive in uncertainty and strive to bring order to it; you have deep wisdom and judgement; you keep your eye on the ball; you build strong relationships; you are aware of politics but do not get mired in them; you are constantly looking to improve yourself and those on the teams around you.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years management experience in software engineering, ideally in the field of rights & pricing and content availability systems, and have established expertise in leading a multi-level engineering organization.

• Proven track record of managing a vast portfolio of complex technical projects across multiple stakeholders with tight delivery timelines.

• Superior communication and presentation skills. Must be able to distill and present information in a clear & concise manner at all technical levels and across all business functions.

• Skilled negotiator, able to identify the correct trade-offs and compromise across scope, time, and resources. Experience creating effective change management processes to keep project delivery on track.

• Deep experiences working cross functionally in highly matrixed organizations, establishing strong trusting partnerships with colleagues who may have very different goals than you do to drive success.

• Strong understanding of data modeling and data stores, including relational and key-value at large scale. Strong understanding of API design, service-oriented-architecture, large scale distributed systems and asynchronous patterns with data guarantees.

• Experience building SOX-compliant systems and internal tools; familiarity with building auditable systems and change-histories.

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding front-end tooling stacks and technologies. Fundamental grasp of complex workflow systems.

• BS/MS EE/CS/CE or equivalent work experience

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

• 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 $252,400 and $378,700, 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 (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf)

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