Senior Software Engineer – Data Platform, Apple Services Engineering

Summary

Posted: Feb 18, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200591563

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Do you love solving complex challenges? Are you an inventive self-starter who takes pride in making ideas come to life on a global scale? Are you passionate about developing big-data platforms using creative algorithms to process petabytes of data with very low latency? If so, join Apple Data Platform (ADP) team to design and build a scalable big-data platform that is used across Apple. As part of Apple Data Platform (ADP) you will have a meaningful role in designing, developing, and deploying high-performance systems that handle millions of queries every single day. This enormous scale brings challenges that require extraordinarily creative problem solving. By focusing on and respecting the customer’s needs, you’ll be responsible for helping us build the technology that works for so many customers around the world. We are looking for Engineers and Architects who are passionate about crafting big-data products. This role requires deep understanding of developing products that are highly scalable, highly available and fully fault tolerant.

Description

We are building and supporting services like Spark in our Data platform which is used by various teams within Apple to enable critical use-cases. We are looking for a strong, enthusiastic developer to join as a member of this group. This person will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction of many critical Apple internal services for years to come. You are someone with ideas and real passion for software delivered as a service to improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineer’s work will affect hundreds of millions of users and be essential to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong programming expertise in Java, Scala and/or scripting languages, preferably with critical, large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in designing, developing and deploying data processing applications and frameworks on cloud-based infrastructure like AWS, GCP etc.
• Experience in cluster management/orchestration software like Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Helm charts, Docker is a plus
• Ability to design large-scale, complex applications with excellent run-time characteristics such as low-latency, fault-tolerance and availability
• A learning attitude to continuously improve self, team, and the organization
• Deeply concerned about excellence and quality
• Loves fast paced environment and learning new technologies
• Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern Analytics and Data technologies like Spark is a plus
• Experience with contribution to Open Source projects is a plus

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 and $312,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.