# Engineering Leader, Data Engineering

Apple's Media Services organization is home to App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more. Our services touch hundreds of millions of lives daily. At the center of these services is data: the pipelines, platforms, and intelligence that power how people discover and engage with media content, all built on Apple's unwavering commitment to privacy. We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to build and lead the data engineering organization responsible for this foundation. If you are energized by working at a massive scale, building high-performing teams, and evolving data architecture for the AI era on one of the world's most influential platforms, this role was made for you. Description As a data engineering leader within Media Services, you will direct a large organization responsible for the design, development, and operation of massive-scale data pipelines and services across Apple's commerce, payments, and content domains. Your team's work powers customer-facing features like search and personalization, as well as critical reporting and analytics for internal and external partners, all built to Apple's exacting standards for reliability, quality, and privacy. Crucial

- **Id**: 2992570
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-engineering-leader-data-engineering>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-11T19:07:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:29:36Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-11T22:29:36Z
- **Days open**: 153
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 824
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.214
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 216000
- **Max usd**: 424000
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- **Sample n**: 415

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 153

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-21T10:15:31Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-21T16:58:38Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-11T11:18:52Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-11T22:29:36Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

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