Director of Software Engineering: Quality, Insights, and Delivery - Apple Maps
Apple· Consumer Technology· Oct 23, 2026 · 3d ago
Cupertino, California, United States
In office
Full-time
Director
$311K–$497K
6+ years exp
Job description
As a visionary Director of Quality, Insights, and Delivery on our team, you will drive end-to-end quality and insights across Maps software platforms. In this role, you will define and execute comprehensive strategies and solutions which directly impact hundreds of millions of daily active users.
You will manage and grow high performing organizations comprised of engineering managers, performance architects, software, quality, deployment, and automation engineers. As a senior leader, you will partner closely with Product Design, Core Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, and Hardware teams to champion engineering excellence, establish advanced automated testing pipelines, and lead deep-dive investigations into system bottlenecks, quality and performance measurements, automation fidelity, and transaction correctness. You will create, and present, cross-team solutions to automate testing spanning multiple platforms, and devices. Along with ensuring quality, your team is also responsible for routinely packaging Maps and related SDKs across Apple platforms: iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS.
In addition, you will be responsible for creating a monetization-centric quality roadmap, and deliver scalable testing and metrics frameworks.
The ideal candidate brings proven experience leading large, distributed engineering organizations at top-tier consumer tech companies, a rigorous analytical mindset, and an empathetic, collaborative leadership philosophy that empowers teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience, combined with 12+ years of professional software engineering and quality assurance experience.
Management Depth: 6+ years of engineering leadership as a Director with direct experience managing managers (second-line management or above) within consumer software and/or mobile platform ecosystems.
Consumer-Scale Proven Track Record: Demonstrated background driving quality and performance engineering initiatives for consumer products operating at massive scale (millions of active users) while building privacy, security, and quality measures into every step of the process.
Core Performance Proficiency: Solid foundation in core performance metrics (e.g., latency, memory usage, CPU/GPU profiling, concurrency, battery life, thermals, and network throughput).
Delivery & Release Governance: Track record of driving continuous automated testing and quality gates integrated into modern Agile/DevOps CI/CD delivery pipelines.
Advanced Degree: Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
Ecosystem Experience: Direct experience with Native operating systems (iOS, macOS), embedded devices, and/or real-time media/graphics runtimes with trust and safety as pillars for excellence.
Advanced Testing Technologies: Familiarity with modern test infrastructure using distributed test execution, device farms, or AI/ML-driven automated regression detection and failure analysis.
Telemetry & Observability: Expertise architecting scalable observability pipelines, automated crash reporting, and real-time field performance diagnostics.
Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build highly collaborative and inclusive engineering cultures while driving rigorous engineering accountability.
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