CoreOS Engineering Program Manager - Software Developer Productivity, Dev Experience & Operations

Apple Inc

California, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apple, Build Management, Calendar Management, Communication Skills, Computer Architecture, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Critical Path Method, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Detail Oriented, DevOps, Documentation, Leadership, Multitasking, Operating Systems, Operational Improvement, Operational Strategy, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Development, Project Management Software, Project Planning, Project Schedule, Project/Program Management, Quality Assurance Methodology, Quality Management, Release Management/Engineering, Risk Analysis, Simulation, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Splunk, Strategic Planning, Tableau, Team Building, Team Lead/Manager, Technical/Engineering Design, Testing, Time Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
California, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Why Apple? Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

The Software Developer Productivity team is looking for an experienced program manager to join the Core OS Platform Services and Operations EPM team. This is an opportunity to drive key software initiatives as a partner specifically with the Operations and Workflow Engineering groups within the Platform Services organization. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Program Manager to lead highly cross-functional technology efforts designing, building, optimizing, and shipping software in all phases of development from pre-silicon simulation, to sample bring-up, to already-shipping systems.

This role requires an energetic and motivated individual with strong communication, organization, and technical skills who works well in a fast-paced dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and also have a desire to learn, develop, and build on technical expertise during product development. Our environment cultivates product innovation, rapid product iteration, and a liberating amount of autonomy.

We are looking for someone to drive, own, and improve the quality and efficiency of Core OS software operations. In this role you will be the central hub bringing together different teams from SW Engineering, Quality, Development Operations, and Build and Test platform organizations, with the goal of improving the operational effectiveness of the organization.

  • Creating and maintaining detailed project plans, schedule, and status documentation for our Ops and Workflow initiatives.

  • Bringing together and collaborating with large cross-functional stakeholder groups.

  • Serving as a liaison to communicate information regarding requirements, changes, milestones reached, and other pertinent information.

  • Present and communicate new feature initiatives, top issues, risks, and critical achievements to executive leadership.

  • Driving focus to critical path deliverables and track execution of dependencies.

  • Coordinating complex and highly dependent groups of changes through our build and integration systems.

  • Acting as a liason with the Build EPM team around software program deadlines and milestones

  • Proactively identifying risks to software delivery, developing mitigation strategies, and facilitating resolutions.

At least 5 years of experience in program or project management in software development

Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies

Familiar with components of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems

Excellent spoken and written communication with the ability to tailor communication style to multiple audiences

Organization and multi-tasking skills with great attention to detail

Strong leadership skills including ability to build trusting relationships and influence others

Build and Release Engineering / Release Management

Project Management experience in software development life cycle

Understanding software build pipelines, merging, test systems and methods, and the delivery of code

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

DevOps Lifecycle Improvement Initiatives

Developer Productivity

Analytics (splunk/Tableau preferred)

Knowledge of operating system internals architecture skills and experience:

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs