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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Data Platform
Cupertino
Live, first seen by us 32 days ago- Pay
- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
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- Not stated
- Employment
- Not stated
Before you apply
- Employer’s visa record
- 9,255 H-1B petitions approved in fiscal 2024 and 2025For the employer as a whole. This posting doesn’t say whether the role is sponsored. US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
What you’ll work on
Full postingIn this role, you'll collaborate with teams across Apple operating Spark at massive scale and actively contribute upstream to these open-source communities.
From the employer’s posting
We are seeking exceptional software engineers to work on Apache DataFusion Comet, Apache Spark, and related open-source technologies. Comet, the native accelerator for Apache Spark, was created at Apple and donated to the Apache Software Foundation. If you love pushing distributed query engines to their performance limits without compromising correctness or stability, this role is for you. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise in Spark internals and in related data formats and query engines, such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, and DataFusion. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams across Apple operating Spark at massive scale and actively contribute upstream to these open-source communities.
Posting record
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- Live
- First seen by us
- Oct 12, 202632 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 141
- Last seen by us
- Nov 13, 2026
- Reposted
- once since Aug 11, 2026
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How this job compares
Time since we first saw it
Day 32
Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 56.
At Apple, jobs usually come down by about day 48.
From 13,649 similar postings that came down, and 462 of Apple’s. Coming down is not always a hire.
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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- Spark
Where the posting names them
We are seeking exceptional software engineers to work on Apache DataFusion Comet, Apache Spark, and related open-source technologies. Comet, the native accelerator for Apache Spark, was created at Apple and donated to the Apache Software Foundation. If you love pushing distributed query engines to their performance limits without compromising correctness or stability, this role is for you. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise in Spark internals and in related data formats and query engines, such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, and DataFusion. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams across Apple operating Spark at massive scale and actively contribute upstream to these open-source communities.
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Has Apple posted this job before?
Yes. We’ve followed one other Senior Software Engineer, Apple Data Platform job there since November 2026. It is still up.
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.
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
We are seeking exceptional software engineers to work on Apache DataFusion Comet, Apache Spark, and related open-source technologies. Comet, the native accelerator for Apache Spark, was created at Apple and donated to the Apache Software Foundation. If you love pushing distributed query engines to their performance limits without compromising correctness or stability, this role is for you. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise in Spark internals and in related data formats and query engines, such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, and DataFusion. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams across Apple operating Spark at massive scale and actively contribute upstream to these open-source communities.
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