Senior Data Engineering Manager, Capacity Engineering, Apple Services Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$225,600–$338,400 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $282k
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineering Manager, Capacity Engineering, Apple Services Engineering

As a Senior Data Engineering Manager - Capacity Engineering, Apple Services Engineering, you will lead a geographically distributed team responsible for the capacity data lake and its associated pipelines, services, and analyses. You will serve as a hands-on technical leader, setting the direction for how capacity data is ingested, modeled, governed, and served to ensure accuracy for planners and executives. The role involves building foundational systems that connect customer demand, platform supply, hardware fulfillment, utilization, and cost into a single source of truth. You will utilize Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, and cloud data stores like Aurora or S3-compatible storage to manage large-scale ingestion and ETL pipelines. This position solves critical infrastructure problems by transforming raw fleet, demand, and supply signals into the trusted data required for multi-hundred-million-dollar capacity planning and cost optimization decisions across the organization.

What you'll do

  • Lead a geographically distributed team of engineers responsible for the capacity data lake and associated pipelines.
  • Manage the ingestion, modeling, and governance of data connecting customer demand, platform supply, and infrastructure costs.
  • Set the technical direction for how capacity data is served to planners, finance teams, and executives.
  • Act as a hands-on technical contributor by solving complex architecture and data quality problems with the team.
  • Build foundational data systems that inform multi-hundred-million-dollar infrastructure and capacity planning decisions.
  • Ensure high standards of data reliability and accuracy for critical internal reporting and analytics.
  • Translate complex, heterogeneous data into actionable business insights for senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience including hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers.
  • Hands-on data engineering background in designing data lakes, models, and large-scale ingestion/ETL pipelines.
  • Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, and cloud data stores like Aurora or S3.
  • Ability to remain technically hands-on by leading architecture reviews and solving complex data-quality problems.
  • Strong data-analysis instincts to derive and communicate business insights from complex, heterogeneous data.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting technical strategy to engineers and senior leadership.
  • Willingness and ability to be based in Seattle while leading a geographically distributed team.

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