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# Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects at Apple

Department: Software and Services

Compensation · Listed in posting

$184,700 – $324,800

**Location**
: Cupertino, California

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 15, 2026

## Description

Apple is hiring a Data Engineer to design, build, and operate massively scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, process, model, and enrich multimodal data for downstream analytics, operations, and machine-learning applications. The role focuses on Kafka-based ingestion, dimensional data modeling, data quality and observability, data governance, and production ML model serving, while requiring extensive experience across distributed processing, cloud platforms, containerization, and related technologies.

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