Senior Engineering Manager, Live Sports and Media Analytics

Summary

Apple Services is one of the fastest-growing businesses at Apple, delivering experiences across Apple TV+, Music, App Store, Arcade, Apple Pay, and more. Our Analytics Data Engineering team builds intelligent data systems that power insights across the services.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our Live Sports and Media Analytics team — dedicated for building highly scalable, near real-time systems that process live sports data, video, and audio streams. These systems deliver actionable insights that power content production, marketing strategy, advertising, royalty payments, and partner reporting.

At Apple, our people do more than build products — they craft experiences that have reshaped industries. The diversity of our teams and their ideas fuels the innovation behind everything we create, from cutting-edge technology to meaningful environmental initiatives. Come help us make a lasting, positive impact on the world.

Description

As an engineering leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Sports, Media analytics strategy and empowering a group of highly skilled engineers to innovate in this space. You will work closely with peer engineering teams, data scientists, and stakeholders to deeply understand their data needs and deliver innovative, high-impact solutions.

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

Minimum 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Pay & Benefits — Seattle, Washington, United States

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 $195,700 and $338,400, 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

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Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.