Pay
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Data Engineer - Capacity Planning - Apple Data Platform
- Pay
- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
- Work setting
- Not stated
- Employment
- Not stated
What you’ll work on
Full postingBuild data pipelines and models for infrastructure demand and capacity
Build analytical tools covering utilization and cost of cloud infrastructure
Work with engineering, CIBO, Finance, and Procurement on infrastructure planning
From the employer’s posting
build data pipelines, models, and analytical tools that help us understand infrastructure demand, utilization, capacity, and cost
build data pipelines, models, and analytical tools
You will work closely with engineering, CIBO, Finance, and Procurement
Posting record
Report an errorActively hiringFirst seen by us 1 day ago, still listed, and not a repost of an earlier posting.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Nov 4, 20261 day ago
- Recorded sightings
- 2
- Last seen by us
- Nov 5, 2026
- Employer says posted
- Sep 23, 2026
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How this job compares
Time since we first saw it
Day 1
Early. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 54.
At Apple, jobs usually come down by about day 39.
From 11,172 similar postings that came down, and 363 of Apple’s. Coming down is not always a hire.
Apple is hiring
448 open jobs
Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.
- Data Engineer hiring is steady
- Takes jobs down at a usual pace
- 3% of open jobs were reposted
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About Apple
- People
- About 166,000 in 2025, up 1% from the year before.Annual report (SEC Form 10-K)
- Company
- Listed as AAPL.
- H-1B visas
- 1,599 approved for new hires in fiscal 2025.US Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Layoff notices
- Notices this year and last cover 57 people. The latest was filed April 23, 2026.State WARN notices
Demand for Data Engineer roles
New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 8% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.
Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 5 weeks.
Counted from the hiring pages we’ve followed for at least five weeks, so employers we add don’t look like growth. Updated weekly.
About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $139,500
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.
Job description
Help us build the data foundation for capacity planning across Apple’s data and AI infrastructure. The Apple Data Platform organization is looking for a Data Engineer to build data pipelines, models, and analytical tools that help us understand infrastructure demand, utilization, capacity, and cost. The role will initially focus on third-party cloud infrastructure including GPUs, TPUs, compute, and storage and will expand over time to Apple-owned infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, CIBO, Finance, and Procurement to help Apple make better infrastructure planning and investment decisions.
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