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Apple

Senior Data Engineer, Data Products

$185K–$325K

Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026

Experience
5+ years of industry experience building distributed, scalable data pipelines.

About the job

Build and operate scalable, privacy-preserving real-time and batch data pipelines for Apple Ads, improving their quality, reliability, and efficiency.

What you'll do

  • Engineer and operate data processing systems across real-time, near-real-time, and batch contexts; deliver features, schema changes, backfills, and fixes.
  • Improve pipeline design, reliability, efficiency, and operational performance; contribute to monitoring and on-call, and support incident response as appropriate.
  • Use AI coding agents with validation for correctness, privacy, and cost; collaborate with product and engineering teams and mentor others as seniority grows.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of industry experience building distributed, scalable data pipelines.
  • Proficiency with modern programming languages and distributed data processing; data modeling with Iceberg lakehouse concepts.
  • Experience building and scaling systems on premise and in the cloud.
  • Demonstrated productive use of AI coding tools in real delivery.

Nice to have

  • Experience owning pipeline component or service design, or working with near-real-time and streaming pipelines at scale.
  • Prior advertising industry experience; history of reliability, efficiency, or cost improvements and mentoring engineers.

Pay

USD $184,700 and $324,800 base salary

Tools

Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Flink, Scala, Java, Python

AI focus

Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation, test coverage, and debugging, validating results for correctness, privacy, and cost.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)