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Senior Engineering Manager, Live Sports and Media Analytics

Apple
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About the role

Engineering leader responsible for defining strategy and leading a team building near real-time, scalable analytics systems for live sports and media data, video, and audio streams across Apple Services.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for Live Sports and Media analytics
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements
  • Architect and deliver highly scalable near real-time analytics systems
  • Partner with peers, quality engineering, SRE to deliver and operate high quality data solutions
  • Constantly measure and improve data quality, system reliability, performance and efficiency
  • Mentoring and developing engineering talent and their growth
  • Represent team vision and roadmap to senior leadership and lead through ambiguity
  • Foster innovation first inclusive engineering culture with strong accountability

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of leading engineering teams
  • Strong understanding of data engineering principles and best practices
  • Hands-on experience in architecting and delivering large-scale data engineering applications
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, especially in cross-functional settings
  • Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent
  • Experience in leading teams through large, open-ended projects with ambiguous requirements
  • Experience in delivering AIML and GenAI engineering projects at scale
  • Experience in building scalable stream analytics systems with one or more of Flink, Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, StarRocks
  • Experience in computer vision, video and audio stream processing with Open CV, VLM, Object Detection and Speech to Text

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipData engineeringNear real-time analyticsStreaming technologies
Nice to have:AIML / GenAI at scaleComputer vision / video and audio processing

Benefits

  • Apple benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, and educational reimbursement; discretionary bonuses or commission potential; relocation assistance; stock programs (RSU / Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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