Apple

Data Engineer - Capacity Planning - Apple Data Platform

Apple • $130K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Data Engineering or related fields.
  • Strong SQL skills for large datasets.
  • Proficient in Python or similar languages for data processing.
  • Experience with building data pipelines and models.
  • Knowledge of ETL/ELT patterns and data quality.
  • Familiarity with cloud billing from AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to reconcile data models with financial sources.

Responsibilities

  • Build data pipelines for infrastructure telemetry and demand.
  • Create analytical tools to forecast infrastructure needs.
  • Transform complex data into actionable insights.
  • Collaborate with engineering and finance teams for planning.
  • Ensure pipeline reliability and data quality standards are met.
  • Analyze capacity gaps and improve infrastructure efficiency.
  • Integrate financial data with operational datasets.

Benefits

  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams at Apple.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data and AI infrastructure.
  • Focus on both third-party and Apple-owned infrastructure.
  • Impactful role in shaping infrastructure planning decisions.
  • Growth opportunities within a leading tech company.
Full Job Description
Help us build the data foundation for capacity planning across Apple's data and AI infrastructure. The Apple Data Platform organization is looking for a Data Engineer to build data pipelines, models, and analytical tools that help us understand infrastructure demand, utilization, capacity, and cost. The role will initially focus on third-party cloud infrastructure including GPUs, TPUs, compute, and storage and will expand over time to Apple-owned infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, CIBO, Finance, and Procurement to help Apple make better infrastructure planning and investment decisions.

Description

As a Data Engineer focused on Capacity Planning, you will bring together infrastructure telemetry, workload demand, capacity commitments, and financial data into trusted datasets and data products. You will build the pipelines and analytical foundations used to understand current utilization, forecast future needs, identify capacity gaps, and improve infrastructure efficiency. You will partner with engineering and business teams to turn complex infrastructure data into actionable insights.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Infrastructure Analytics, or a related field.

Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.

Experience with Python or another language used for data processing and automation.

Experience building data pipelines, data models, and analytical datasets.

Understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, data quality, and pipeline reliability.

Experience working with cloud billing and usage data from AWS, GCP or Azure

Proven ability to build data models that reconcile to a financial source of truth

Understanding of AI and ML inference workloads and how model serving drives compute cost

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with infrastructure capacity planning, forecasting, or resource-management data.

Experience working with GPU, TPU, CPU, storage, or cloud infrastructure.

Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.

Understanding of AI/ML infrastructure and accelerator utilization.

Experience with infrastructure cost, billing, or utilization datasets.

Experience with technologies such as Spark, Trino, Airflow, Kafka, or similar data-platform tools.

Experience with Tableau or other visualization platforms.

Familiarity with infrastructure economics, cloud commitments, or capacity optimization.

Experience partnering with Engineering, Finance, or Procurement on infrastructure planning.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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