Software Engineering Manager – Virtual Networking

Summary

Posted:May 06, 2025

Role Number:200594436

People at Apple don’t just build products. They craft the kind of experiences that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Can you intrinsically see the importance of every detail? At Apple, the Compute organization is responsible for designing and building the foundational pieces of our data center software. In this role, you will collaborate with senior technical talent and leaders across Apple to build and deploy forward-looking Compute platforms that support Apple products and services. We are seeking an Engineering leader to lead & grow engineering and research initiatives to help build Apple Cloud Compute. You will lead highly performant teams that will research, align, architect, drive, and build solutions to support Apple Cloud Engineering efforts with a specific focus around Apple’s world-wide cloud batch platform that supports Apple’s R&D. This role is highly technical and is expected to contribute to the virtualized networking layer of the platform.

Description

The compute organization runs a multi-region, large-scale, in-house-developed, batch platform that empowers Apple’s R&D around the world. You will manage and organize the team that works on the platform. In this role you will: Lead the engineering team, as it works in collaboration with the other teams across the world. Design, implement, debug, and benchmark core virtual networking infrastructure (both services and core systems components). Write and review code, generate and review design documentation Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software to production clusters Participate in local business-hours rotation where engineers respond to platform issues for same-day resolution Work with a wide range of software and hardware engineering teams across Apple to support their workflows or integrate their technology into our platform

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience with networking protocols, layers or with low systems, virtualization technologies (QEMU, KVM, libvirt, virtio device specifications)
• Strong systems programming skills and knowledge of operating system fundamentals
• 5+ years of experience in system software development
• MS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SDN, OpenVSwitch and networking protocols
• Experience developing and managing a large-scale cloud production system.
• Customer focused thinking and strong problem solver with attention to detail.
• Experience with measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance.
• Fluency in Golang, Python, or similar languages in a systems or distributed systems context.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with large scale server provisioning and maintenance.
• Prior experience of working with diverse hardware, operating systems, container runtimes (lxc, docker, containerd) and virtualization stacks (Qemu, KVM, Libvirt on x86, ARM)

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 $181,000 and $272,300, 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.