Pay
$127K–$190K is typical
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Senior Platform Software Engineer, AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)
- Pay
- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
- Work setting
- 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.
Tools in this posting
- SQL
- Kafka
- NoSQL
- S3
- Spark
Source — Tool mentions in context
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything that we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Data powers Apple's software, services, and product development. Apple's Data Services Org. provides a diverse range of data solutions, including SQL and NoSQL databases, search engines, and streaming platforms with GenAI capabilties. Apple’s Data Services team supports building data platforms for several large-scale data science applications. We work on many high-impact projects that serve various Apple lines of business. We use the latest in open source technology and as committers on some of these projects, we are pushing the envelope. Working with multiple lines of business, we manage many streams of Apple-scale data. We bring it all together and extract the insights & value. We do all this with an exceptional group of software engineers, data scientists, SRE/DevOps engineers, and managers. We are looking for a talented and dedicated senior big data engineer to join our team to bring passion for infrastructure and distributed systems to build world-class data platforms/products at a very large scale across multiple cloud environments running on S3, Kafka, Flink, Spark, LLMs and AI/ML! You would work on developing/deploying large-scale big data semantic/hybrid search, streaming applications.
Posting record
Report an errorActively hiringFirst seen by us today, still listed, and not a repost of an earlier posting.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Nov 14, 2026today
- Recorded sightings
- 1
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How this job compares
Time since we first saw it
Day 0
Early. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 56.
At Apple, jobs usually come down by about day 48.
From 13,630 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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Has Apple posted this job before?
Yes. We’ve followed one other Senior Platform Software Engineer, AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) 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
People at Apple don’t just build products — they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything that we do. Imagine what you could do here! Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.
Data powers Apple's software, services, and product development. Apple's Data Services Org. provides a diverse range of data solutions, including SQL and NoSQL databases, search engines, and streaming platforms with GenAI capabilties. Apple’s Data Services team supports building data platforms for several large-scale data science applications. We work on many high-impact projects that serve various Apple lines of business. We use the latest in open source technology and as committers on some of these projects, we are pushing the envelope. Working with multiple lines of business, we manage many streams of Apple-scale data. We bring it all together and extract the insights & value. We do all this with an exceptional group of software engineers, data scientists, SRE/DevOps engineers, and managers. We are looking for a talented and dedicated senior big data engineer to join our team to bring passion for infrastructure and distributed systems to build world-class data platforms/products at a very large scale across multiple cloud environments running on S3, Kafka, Flink, Spark, LLMs and AI/ML! You would work on developing/deploying large-scale big data semantic/hybrid search, streaming applications.
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