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Principal Software Engineer - Apple Data Platform
Shanghai
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- Not stated
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What you’ll work on
Full postingOwn the architecture of the data, analytics, and AI platform for China
Meet regional regulatory and data residency requirements in the platform design
Solve large-scale distributed systems challenges
Partner with the global Apple Data Platform organization to bring its capabilities to China
From the employer’s posting
you'll own the architecture of the platform that powers data, analytics, and AI workloads
while meeting regional regulatory and data residency requirements
solve large-scale distributed systems challenges
Working in close partnership with the global Apple Data Platform organization, you'll bring world-class platform capabilities to China
Posting record
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- Live
- First seen by us
- Nov 6, 2026today
- Recorded sightings
- 1
- Reposted
- once since Aug 27, 2026
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How this job compares
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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Has Apple posted this job before?
Yes. We’ve followed one other Principal Software Engineer - Apple Data Platform job there since August 2026. It came down after 71 days.
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 Apple Data Platform in China! We are establishing a new engineering organization from the ground up to build and operate Apple's next-generation data platform for customers in China. As the founding principal engineer on the team, you'll own the architecture of the platform that powers data, analytics, and AI workloads while meeting regional regulatory and data residency requirements.
Working in close partnership with the global Apple Data Platform organization, you'll bring world-class platform capabilities to China, solve large-scale distributed systems challenges, and set the technical foundation that will support Apple's long-term growth in the region.
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