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# Engineering Program Manager, Architecture & Performance, Apple Services Engineering

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $166,600.0 - $250,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Software Systems, Backend, Information Technology, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5dbb034331c152e1

## About the Role

Experience with systems performance instrumentation and optimizations

Experience working across a full software stack: consumer devices, networking, backend and infrastructure

Understanding of OS fundamentals

Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, including the ability to convey information in a clear, concise and credible manner

Strong relationship management and facilitation skills both within diverse engineering teams and cross functional organizations

Familiarity with open-source software development processes

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of program management, product management, systems engineering or equivalent experience

Excellent project management skills to drive schedules, dependencies, critical path and risks

Solid technical understanding of large scale distributed software systems, cloud architecture, development and deployment, and bonus points for past development experience

Strong facilitation skills (requirements sessions, design meetings, progress and status meetings)

Experience working with globally distributed teams

BS/MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant industry experience

## Description

We are looking for an engineering program manager to steer the performance aspect of feature development and drive cross functional initiatives. ","responsibilities":"You will help define metrics and KPIs, and lead teams to execute on performance goals. This is a hands-on role working with the engineering org, as well as site-reliability engineering, business teams, operational teams, marketing, analytics, and external vendors.

You are the thread tying these disparate teams together to deliver end-to-end projects that improve our products globally.

You will be involved in all aspects of the project life-cycle, whether it be helping develop functional requirements, getting into the detailed analysis, facilitating proofs-of-concept or QA, and tracking release management of multiple projects at once.

You build positive relationships; you are aware of politics but do not get mired in them; you are constantly looking to improve yourself and your team; you see around corners; and you deliver.