Engineering Manager, App Store Data
About The Position
Apple’s App Store is the world’s largest and most innovative app marketplace, home to over 1.5 million apps and serving more than half a billion customers every week across all the Apple devices. Since the App Store launched in 2008, it has changed how we all live; it has enabled countless new companies, spawned new industries, and built millions of jobs. But we believe we are just getting started. Do you have a strong passion for using data to drive business decisions, generate ideas, and inspire collaborators? If so, join us, you will play an integral role in helping App Store make decisions using data and improve the store every day for both users and developers by generating analysis from data in a privacy-friendly manner. We enable data-driven innovation by building solutions, services, and analytics for a variety of internal stakeholders and external partners. In a world where apps have become essential in people’s daily lives, the App Store team has become essential to Apple’s business. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead App Store’s growing data engineering and analytics function. This team owns compliance critical data products and the EM is accountable not just for delivery, but for the correctness and team adherence to compliance controls, reviewer of design decisions with privacy/legal implications. This role blends technical depth with people leadership - you’ll lead with empathy and energy, guide engineering execution, ensure operational excellence, and stay hands-on in key parts of our data ecosystem. As a technical manager, you’ll partner closely with stakeholders across the App Store business to translate strategic priorities into scalable data solutions, sustainable delivery practices, and a strong culture of ownership and growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics.
- Strong hands-on SQL, Python or Java, Scala and data modeling expertise.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management in analytics/data teams.
- Proven ability to define semantic layers and build scalable dashboards.
- Experience with Trino, Superset or other BI/visualization tools.
- Experience building and operating data pipelines with robust validation and monitoring; high bar for data quality.
- Excellent communication; proven success partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy etc.) to define KPIs and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Track record of driving projects end-to-end and demonstrating clear outcomes and impact.
- Appetite for applying AI and emerging tools to increase productivity and reimagine how DE teams deliver impact (without sacrificing rigor and decision quality).
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Regulatory and Compliance engineering - GDPR operational requirements, data minimization, DMA, DSA obligations, Privacy-first data architecture at a technical level.
- Experience working with privacy, legal and regulatory stakeholders in an engineering capacity.
Responsibilities
- Lead App Store’s growing data engineering and analytics function.
- Accountable for delivery, correctness, and team adherence to compliance controls.
- Review design decisions with privacy/legal implications.
- Lead with empathy and energy, guide engineering execution, ensure operational excellence, and stay hands-on in key parts of our data ecosystem.
- Partner closely with stakeholders across the App Store business to translate strategic priorities into scalable data solutions, sustainable delivery practices, and a strong culture of ownership and growth.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
