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Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering - Music Data Engineering

Pay
Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
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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

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  • Run worldwide experiments on Apple Music features

  • Analyze usage and latency data to guide customer experience

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running worldwide experiments
analyzing usage and latency

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Live
First seen by us
Oct 16, 202628 days ago
Recorded sightings
110
Last seen by us
Nov 13, 2026
Employer says posted
Oct 6, 2026

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How this job compares

Pay

$127K–$190K is typical

The middle half of what similar US postings state. This one doesn’t list pay.

From 2,239 postings in the last year. Stated ranges, not salaries paid.

Time since we first saw it

Day 28

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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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.

Weekly new Data Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of November 2. The fewest in a week was 860, the most 1,354, and the latest week had 1,335.
August 17Last week

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

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Imagine what you could do here. The people here at Apple don’t just build products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. This team is more than a group of engineers -- it's a group passionate about Apple Music and related products. Apple Music is the world’s most complete music experience, with over 60 million songs, thousands of playlists, and daily selections from music experts for 115 countries. The team’s data-driven engineers focus relentlessly on the customer experience by running worldwide experiments and analyzing usage and latency, while collaborating with Apple’s product groups. As a result, you can share your favorite album from Apple Music with your friends, while enjoying access to Photos, Arcade, Apple TV+ and more, all working seamlessly together, all made just for you.
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