Continuous Integration Systems Manager
Apple
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 198,300-342,800 / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 2, 2025
Apple's Software Developer Workflows team delivers fast, reliable CI systems that make Apple's software easier to develop and ship. We believe that streamlined development unlocks creativity, innovation, and potential for developers. We're seeking an experienced engineering manager to drive critical improvements in our CI systems. You'll extend large-scale software integration systems and distributed architectures for Apple's OS engineers, with particular focus on results storage and failure analysis capabilities that help developers quickly diagnose and resolve build/test issues. We value diverse perspectives and unique skills. More than specific experience, we seek a leader passionate about building great software, continuous learning, and enabling others to create amazing applications.
You'll solve software integration problems at scale using distributed backends, combining our unique domain with proven distributed system techniques for high performance and reliability. You'll make architectural decisions considering short and long-term goals, then guide implementation across teams while developing operational mechanisms. Success requires flexibility, proactivity, and thriving in a supportive environment with challenging problems. You'll need excellent judgment for timely decisions, ability to drive constructive design discussions, and experience to advocate and teach others. In your role as a manager and leader on our team, you will:
- Drive scalable results storage architectures handling Apple's massive CI workload with fast failure diagnosis
- Develop sophisticated failure analysis systems providing actionable insights through comprehensive data analysis
- Lead teams by developing clear vision and strong cultural norms
- Support distributed services engineering and organizational tooling standards
- Refine requirements and implement lasting solutions with your team
- Build cross-team relationships and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate on service scalability (resiliency, redundancy, performance)
- Own components critical to Apple's success
- Engineer high-performance systems through optimization and testing
- Scale distributed services to increasing problem sizes
- Improve service and tool operability
- 5+ years of system software development experience, with 2+ years in engineering
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering related field, or equivalent experience
- Proven ability to build diverse, strong teams - attracting, hiring, retaining top talent
- Experience transforming complex technical data into actionable developer insights
- Strong leadership experience and influence with cross-functional products or initiatives
- Self-directed: drive projects from concept to production
- Passion for developer productivity, testing, build systems, and cloud services
- Large-scale data storage, analytics platforms, or observability tools experience
- Background in failure analysis or building diagnostic systems for developers
- Thrives in fast-paced environments, loves learning new technologies
- Large-scale distributed systems design and operations
- High-scale platform systems with fast response/recovery requirements
- Application monitoring and incident management experience
- Infrastructure systems knowledge (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Programming expertise (Java, Scala, C/C++, Objective-C, Swift, etc.)
- Excellent interpersonal skills
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