Apple
Senior Data Engineering Manager - Capacity Engineering, Apple Services Engineering
$226K–$338K
Seattle, Washington · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a distributed data engineering team building and operating the capacity data lake, pipelines, models, and analytics that support Apple infrastructure planning and capacity decisions.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for ingesting, modeling, governing, and serving capacity data while ensuring data quality and reliability.
- Lead and grow engineers, staying hands-on with architecture, data models, and data-quality challenges.
- Partner with forecasting, reservation/quota, platform, finance, and program management teams to deliver trusted capacity insights.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, including hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers.
- Hands-on data engineering experience designing and operating data lakes, data models, and large-scale ingestion/ETL pipelines, with data quality, governance, and accessibility experience.
- Experience with modern big-data and data-lake technologies; ability to remain technically hands-on and communicate technical strategy and data-driven recommendations.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and capacity planning, cost optimization, or FinOps-style programs.
- Experience introducing AI/LLM-assisted tooling into data engineering and analytics workflows.
Pay
$225,600 and $338,400 USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Aurora, S3-compatible storage
AI focus
Preferred experience introducing AI/LLM-assisted tooling into data engineering and analytics workflows.
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