Apple
Sr. Engineering Leader, Foundation Data Platform - Wallet, Payments & Commerce
Austin, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Leads the strategy, integration, and engineering team for a petabyte-scale data foundation supporting Apple Wallet, Payments, and Commerce.
What you'll do
- Set platform direction, deciding what to consume, extend, build within WPC, or influence upstream.
- Lead technical integration, architecture, and delivery of multi-quarter programs across platform teams.
- Build and develop teams while maintaining operational practices, governance, privacy, and security.
What they ask for
- Experience leading software and platform engineering teams that include engineering managers and senior or staff-level individual contributors.
- Production ownership of petabyte-scale data systems, including accountability for volumes, ingest rates, and consumer counts.
- Experience extending and integrating with a shared platform not owned by the team, influencing its roadmap, and securing capabilities from other teams.
- Hands-on distributed processing, streaming, and large-scale storage background; track record hiring and developing talent, delivering cross-organizational programs, and excellent written communication.
Nice to have
- Experience serving real-time and batch consumers on a unified data foundation; background in commerce, partner, payments, or supply chain data.
- Familiarity with federated data ownership or data mesh; demonstrated cost efficiency at scale without harming reliability or developer experience.
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