Senior Performance Engineering Manager

Summary

Posted: Oct 18, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200565192

At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Ad Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads, App Store, and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy. We are looking for a Manager who can thrive in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities includes leading the Performance Test Engineering team test and tools development efforts for our complex backend software services, analytics pipelines, reporting portals, and APIs. You will define the Performance Strategy, and implement it across several domains and concurrent projects, setting baseline automation for performance measurements and analysis, mentor teams on performance best practices, lead the automation of performance monitoring and improving system performance, orchestrate performance tests across services, and assist in the creation of processes, tools, and procedures. You will also build the necessary tools to enable development teams to run performance tests within their software capabilities.

Description

Performance testing engineering group is a SWAT team of Ads Platforms Engineering group responsible for building automation platform, performance engineering and other capabilities to improve quality of Ad Platforms offerings, at the same time strive for efficiency to reduce time to market for features that impacts the business bottom line. We operate at scale, think creatively, and build innovative technology frameworks to achieve quality goals. The performance engineering group works with multiple cross functional teams within Ad Platforms as well as working with various teams across Apple to deliver quality products and set quality standards in collaborative yet fast paced environment. As a member of Quality Engineering team you will be responsible for developing a comprehensive solutions and capabilities that helps deliver quality products efficiently and effectively.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or MS in computer science or equivalent experience
• Ability to effectively manage relationships with stakeholders, including product managers, development teams, and senior leadership.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools. This includes skills in planning, scheduling, and executing performance testing projects, as well as tracking progress and managing resources effectively.
• Significant experience in software development in Java/Linux environment and Performance Engineering of distributed systems and web services.
• Deep understanding of factors influencing performance of software applications at multiple layers including services, databases, network, CPU and memory utilization, JVM and threads, query performance etc.
• Strong knowledge of web services architecture and distributed systems at scale, developing comprehensive strategy for performance testing, measurement, monitoring and analysis, baselining and performance tuning is a must.
• Strong knowledge of open source tools such as JMeter/Locust/Gatling/Tsung and ability to evaluate other technologies to build optimal tech stack for performance engineering.
• Strong Database knowledge in Oracle, Casandra and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience in cloud-based performance testing in Docker containers, AWS, Git repository, and resilience engineering.
• Ability to lead performance optimization efforts coupled with excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work with open ended problems, adapt to changing technology landscape, and work under minimal supervision.
• Experienced in instilling defensive programming culture across a large engineering organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Big Data, Hadoop eco system, Kafka, Solr and other cutting edge technologies is a strong plus.

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 $219,300 and $329,600, 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.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.