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Senior Data Services SRE - ASE Databases
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- Work setting
- Not stated
- Employment
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What you’ll work on
Full postingJoin one dedicated SRE team that runs a data service technology
Run data service technologies that Apple's internet services are built on
From the employer’s posting
You will join one of these teams, matched to your background and to where the Shanghai site needs depth
The Databases SRE organization runs the data service technologies that Apple's internet services are built on
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Experience as a distributed systems or database engineer
Qualification wording
seeking experienced distributed systems and database engineers
Tools in this posting
- Kafka
- Redis
Source — Tool mentions in context
Apple's Services Engineering organization (ASE) is seeking experienced distributed systems and database engineers to join our Databases SRE organization in Shanghai. The Databases SRE organization runs the data service technologies that Apple's internet services are built on, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Redis/Valkey, and coordination systems such as etcd and Apache ZooKeeper. Each of these is owned by a dedicated SRE team, and this posting covers engineering roles across all of them. You will join one of these teams, matched to your background and to where the Shanghai site needs depth; you are not expected to arrive with experience in all of these technologies.
Posting record
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- Live
- First seen by us
- Sep 24, 202650 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 250
- Last seen by us
- Nov 13, 2026
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How this job compares
Apple is hiring
483 open jobs
Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.
- Data Engineer hiring has slowed
- Takes jobs down at a usual pace
- 5% 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 135 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 7% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.
Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 6 weeks.
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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
Apple's Services Engineering organization (ASE) is seeking experienced distributed systems and database engineers to join our Databases SRE organization in Shanghai. The Databases SRE organization runs the data service technologies that Apple's internet services are built on, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Redis/Valkey, and coordination systems such as etcd and Apache ZooKeeper. Each of these is owned by a dedicated SRE team, and this posting covers engineering roles across all of them. You will join one of these teams, matched to your background and to where the Shanghai site needs depth; you are not expected to arrive with experience in all of these technologies.
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