Sr. Software Engineer, Big Data - Apple Services Engineering

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can accomplish.

Would you like the stimulation and challenges of building world-class, extraordinary scalable systems that power App Store, Music, TV+, Fitness+, Arcade, Payments and many more? Then this is the opportunity for you at Apple! We strive to provide a flawless experience for millions of customers and developers.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join Apple Services Engineering (ASE) who brings deep passion for building distributed large scale data processing systems, frameworks and platforms using big data technologies.

Description

Data is our first class citizen and the foundation of any AI features. The volume of the data is on petabytes scale. And we are software engineers who build distributed systems to generate data analytics. The systems should scale well, be highly available and provide consistent results.

The systems we build have significant impact on our stakeholders. And most importantly, we are deeply committed to Apple's privacy policy, which forms Apple's core values. You will have important responsibility and influence in designing and building the data platform to empower businesses, operations, data analytics and AI feature. ","responsibilities":"Join a fast growing team of data engineers to develop and iterate quickly on all stages of data processing.

Lead, design, develop, and drive the unique solutions necessary to scale to Apple Service's diverse data requirements.

Innovate and inspire a scalable data vision for current and extension to support AI needs. Influence internal teams, partners, and stakeholders to execute on that vision.

Drive for quality, scalability and a strong collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong analytical skills with solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Excellent communicator, able to explain complex concepts clearly.

Strong interest in processing data to power embedded and AI features.

Minimum Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of experience.

Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, SQL, with hands-on experience in distributed compute/storage systems like Spark, Iceberg, Cassandra, Hadoop/HDFS, AWS/S3.