Software Engineering Manager, Tools Team

The System Firmware & Diagnostics organization is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of full stack developers building advanced tooling and automation used by engineering teams across Apple. Our tools drive engineering productivity and have broad, meaningful impact across the company. This role is a rare opportunity to lead a high-impact team at the early stages of Apple's adoption of AI in internal tooling - with an open charter to find gaps and build what's missing.\\n

As the Software Engineering Manager for the Tools team, you will lead and develop a team of full stack engineers distributed across multiple sites in the US. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll contribute code, guide architectural decisions, set the technical roadmap, and stay close to the craft. You'll be trusted to make sound engineering decisions alongside your team, balancing an ambitious feature roadmap with the work of modernizing existing areas of the codebase for scale and stability. You'll also partner with engineering teams across Apple to build tools that drive optimization, efficiency, and scalability - including applying modern AI techniques like LLM integration, RAG, and agentic workflows to make tools that are smarter and more capable.\n

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, or strong experience as a technical lead or technical product manager ready to step into formal management.\n5+ years of software development experience designing and building complex, highly available, large scale web applications.\nExperience with front end technologies like HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Next.js, or equivalent.\nExperience with server side development in Node.js\nExperience developing and maintaining Python libraries.\nExperience with API design and development using REST and/or GraphQL.\nAble to travel domestically

Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nExperience integrating LLMs into production systems (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or similar), including RAG pipelines - experience building agentic systems is a plus.\nExperience managing or leading distributed teams across multiple sites and time zones.\nExperience building and supporting business-critical internal tools or developer platforms.\nFamiliarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).\nExperience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms like Kafka.\nExperience with blob storage technologies like S3\nExperience with OAuth2, JWT, and other authentication and authorization mechanisms.\nProficient in software development best practices, including version control with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.\nStrong written and verbal communication, with demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with teams located in different locations.\nA genuine passion for mentoring engineers.