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Senior Capacity Engineer

Apple· Software and Services
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San Francisco, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Capacity Engineer to own capacity planning across Compute platforms and services, forecast demand, model infrastructure growth, identify efficiency opportunities, and leverage AI to build intelligent dashboards and drive predictive analysis for proactive capacity planning at a hyperscale/large-enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end capacity planning lifecycle for our platforms — demand forecasting, supply planning, utilization analysis, and efficiency optimization
  • Drive monthly capacity forecasts — own the process end-to-end, ensuring timely and accurate submissions every cycle
  • Submit and track incremental capacity requests — ensure new resource needs are captured, justified, and filed on a monthly cadence
  • Represent the platform in all capacity-related forums and meetings — be the authoritative voice on current state, projected needs, and risks across cross-functional reviews
  • Build and maintain capacity models that translate business growth signals into infrastructure requirements
  • Use AI to build dashboards and reporting tools that surface capacity health, trends, and anomalies
  • Apply AI-driven analysis to predict resource needs and flag capacity risks before they become incidents
  • Partner with service teams to understand workload characteristics, growth trajectories, and resource consumption patterns
  • Identify and drive efficiency improvements — right-sizing, bin-packing, rebalancing, and decommissioning underutilized resources
  • Establish and track capacity-related SLOs and KPIs (utilization targets, lead times, headroom thresholds)
  • Represent capacity planning in procurement and budget cycles, providing data-driven recommendations for hardware acquisition
  • Drive quarterly and annual capacity reviews, surfacing risks and opportunities to senior leadership

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, SRE, or a related discipline
  • Experience with capacity planning at hyperscale or large enterprise infrastructure
  • Demonstrated experience forecasting infrastructure demand and translating it into actionable supply plans
  • Strong analytical skills — comfortable working with large datasets, building models, and drawing conclusions from utilization and performance data
  • Experience applying AI/ML techniques to operational or infrastructure problems — anomaly detection, demand forecasting, trend analysis, or similar
  • Ability to build AI-assisted dashboards and tooling that turn raw infrastructure data into actionable insights
  • Solid understanding of compute infrastructure concepts: virtualization, containers, orchestration (Kubernetes), bare metal, resource scheduling
  • Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
  • Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity — you define the process, not just follow it
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI coding assistants, or generative AI for engineering productivity
  • Familiarity with infrastructure procurement and hardware lifecycle management
  • Exposure to time-series forecasting methods (statistical or ML-based)

Skills

Required:Capacity planningForecastingAI/ML for operationsDashboarding & toolingCompute architecturesCommunicationAmbiguity tolerance
Nice to have:Procurement awarenessTime-series forecasting

Benefits

  • Apple benefits include comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounts on products and services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses; discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be available
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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