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Device Platform Engineering Manager

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (London)full-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading a team responsible for the internal platform, automation, and engineering tools that enable Apple’s large scale device testing environments, coordinating across software engineering, device operations, networking, security, facilities, and international teams to improve reliability, automation, and self-service capabilities for internal engineering customers.

Responsibilities

  • Accountable for the team’s people, technical execution, and the reliability of the services it provides.
  • Establish priorities across new capabilities, customer requests, automation, operational improvements, and technical debt while ensuring existing services remain reliable and scalable.
  • Drive an automation first approach that reduces manual work and improves self service capabilities for internal engineering customers and the teams supporting the underlying environments.
  • Develop engineers through coaching, clear expectations, technical leadership, and career development while building a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner closely with software engineering, device operations, networking, security, facilities, and other cross functional international teams; translate operational and customer requirements into engineering priorities; communicate service health, technical risks, roadmap decisions, and progress to partners and leadership.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience managing software, systems, platform, or similarly technical engineering teams, with ability to develop engineers and grow their scope and careers.
  • Strong technical background in automation, engineering platforms, systems, or services operating at scale.
  • Experience leading teams responsible for business critical tools or services, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive automation and replace repetitive or manual processes with scalable engineering solutions.
  • Experience managing competing priorities across customer needs, feature development, service reliability, technical debt, and longer term initiatives.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering disciplines, organizations, locations, and time zones.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Experience developing or managing internal engineering platforms, automation frameworks, device management systems, developer tools, or self service capabilities.
  • Experience supporting large scale device fleets, automated testing environments, or globally distributed engineering services.
  • Familiarity with Apple hardware and operating systems, including macOS and iOS.
  • Experience with Python, Ansible, Git, APIs, or comparable automation and software development technologies.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, incident management, and long term service reliability.
  • Understanding of networking and service dependencies across hardware, software, devices, and distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated success building strong relationships with internal customers, understanding their needs, and translating those needs into platform improvements and engineering priorities.

Skills

Required:AutomationPlatform engineeringMonitoring and observabilityLeadership and people managementCommunication and cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Not explicitly listed in the provided description.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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