Testing Area Manager Lead - job 2 of 2

You’ll work on solving testing system problemsby leveraging a strong distributed backend. You’ll find ways to combine our unique problem domain with established distributed system techniques in order to achieve both high performance and reliability. You’ll analyze problem requirements, existing solutions, and available systems, making high-level architectural decisions about how to architect the backend, considering both short- and long-term goals. Once solutions are identified, you will work to guide your teams and other partner teams on how to implement them while developing appropriate operational mechanisms.

You will be most successful here as a flexible and proactive manager who thrives in a supportive, respectful, and balanced work environment with interesting and challenging problems to tackle. You have excellent judgment and integrity with the ability to make timely and sound decisions. You know how to drive constructive discussion of design points, learn from your team, and use your experience to advocate and teach others.

In your role as a manager and leader on our team
• Spend a majority of your time leading your teams by developing a coherent Northstar and strong cultural norms.
• Support your team in working on distributed services engineering, tooling, and contributing to operational standards used across the organization.
• Collaborate with your team members to help refine problem requirements and work with teams to implement long-lasting solutions.
• Engage with other teams to help identify issues and establish long-term relationships that include knowledge sharing.
• Provide valuable feedback loops to engineering teams backed by application metrics and log data.
• Drive areas of service scalability (resiliency, redundancy, performance) by collaborating in planning meetings.
• Develop expertise and be given ownership over components critical to Apple’s success.
• Contribute to engineering a high-performance system through algorithm design, optimization, and performance testing.
• Design new ways to scale Apple’s distributed services to ever-increasing problem sizes.
• Analyze and improve the operability of our services and tools.
• Have access to the engineers who create Apple’s full technology, tools, and operating systems stack.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS, or related field – or equivalent experience with 10+ years of proven excellence in system software development.
• 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
• Track record demonstrating the ability to build a diverse and strong team – attracting, hiring, retaining, and motivating the best talent.
• Proven leadership skills: the ability to lead and influence across cross-functional teams.
• Self-directed: the ability to drive a project from a simple idea to production.

Preferred Qualifications
• Prior experience in developer tools.
• Strong interest in developer productivity, testing and build systems, and cloud services.
• Ability to drive forward through various constraints and ambiguity on difficult problems to make sound decisions.
• Ability to dive deep as needed to facilitate technical strategy trade-offs and zoom out to understand the big picture to shape the product.
• Highly organized, someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment, and loves learning new technologies.
• Experience with designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed systems, or other similar large-scale systems like distributed databases or distributed storage.
• Experience building and running reliable platform systems supporting high-scale and critical workloads, including fast response and short mean-time-to-restore service.
• Ability to efficiently design and develop new technologies in a changing environment.
• Familiarity with application and service monitoring tools and techniques.
• Involvement with incident management and response.
• Familiarity with large infrastructure systems like Kubernetes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Expertise and proficiency in Java, Scala, C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, or equivalent.

Core Skills: Java, Scala
Other Skills: Kubernetes
Seniority: Lead