About this role
At Apple, our greatest resource is our people. The People Analytics team builds the
data products that help Apple's HR organization make decisions with evidence:
measuring how we recruit, develop, listen to and retain employees, and putting that
insight in front of the teams and leaders who act on it. The work is small-team and
high-ownership - the person who models the data is the same person who ships the
dashboard and operates it in production.
Imagine what you could do at Apple.
This role builds and runs analytics products end to end: modeling data in Snowflake,
developing Python web services and APIs, building dashboards that surface actionable
insight, and automating deployment across Linux infrastructure. You will use agentic
AI coding tools such as Claude Code as a primary means of delivery, running parallel
sessions to design, build, test and ship - while holding the standards that generated
code does not: sound architecture, data security, and catching the query that runs
without error and returns the wrong number.
Minimum Qualifications
Deep SQL and Snowflake experience: designing schemas, optimizing queries, and building ETL pipelines, including incremental refresh and caching strategies.
Python experience spanning backend web services, APIs, and data-processing automation.
Hands-on Linux experience operating servers independently: working over SSH, running long-lived services behind a reverse proxy, and diagnosing problems with processes, networking, file systems, and performance.
Container experience covering image build and deployment, as well as troubleshooting networking, storage, and runtime issues.
Daily production experience with agentic AI coding tools (such as Claude Code), including running parallel sessions and reviewing generated code to identify edge cases, incorrect output, and unsound patterns before shipping.
A track record of confirming data and system behavior by measuring against the live system rather than inferring it from documentation, naming conventions, or generated explanations.
Experience developing and maintaining analytics products, reports, and dashboards, including dashboard visualization development.
Experience handling employee data or other sensitive personal data under row-level security and data-access restrictions, with a strong understanding of legal data privacy responsibilities, duty of care, and accountability.
Proven autonomy: experience owning delivery end-to-end with minimal direction, choosing the approach, and making implementation decisions independently.
Experience delivering to competing deadlines and shifting priorities without loss of data accuracy, while proactively setting expectations with stakeholders on scope and timing.
Ability to partner effectively with colleagues and partners across different global regions.
Ability to operate at a senior leader/executive level within the organization, providing data clarity and actionable insights.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Management Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering or a related field; equivalent professional experience will be fully considered.
Familiarity with Python web frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI.
Experience with Python data processing libraries such as NumPy and pandas, and awareness of data science and statistical analysis techniques.
Experience building or operating services that make internal systems available to AI tooling, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Experience delivering on a shared data platform where pipeline changes are centrally owned: scoping a minimal change, evidencing it, and sequencing configuration and code releases.
Experience agreeing on metric definitions with business partners and holding those definitions consistent across multiple reporting surfaces.
Experience working directly with senior business leaders: taking requirements first-hand, presenting data and findings, explaining caveats clearly to non-technical partners, and responding when the numbers are challenged.