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. 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. 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 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 settingsPassion 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
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.
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.