Software Engineer (BI Tools Platform), Ai & Data Platforms

Summary

Posted: Nov 12, 2024

Role Number:200561513

At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Would you like to work in a fast-paced environment where your technical abilities will be challenged on a day-to-day basis? If so, Apple’s Global Business Intelligence (GBI) team is seeking an experienced BI Tools Platform Engineer to build high quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems that power apple’s analytics platform. Apple’s Enterprise Data warehouse landscape caters to a wide variety of real-time, near real-time and batch analytical solutions. These solutions are integral part of business functions like Sales, Operations, Finance, AppleCare, Marketing and Internet Services, enabling business drivers to make critical decisions. We demonstrate a diverse technology stacks for data analytics and visualization. Developing and maintaining these BI tools are core part of our daily job.

Description

As a BI Tools Platform Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for managing multiple deployments on hybrid cloud environments. The candidate will be responsible to ensure reliability and resiliency of the platform. The candidate will build scripts to automate infrastructure activities, system upgrade, and governance. Collaborate with product vendors to investigate, resolve product related issues. Administer Tableau platform, perform platform engineering, release management, reliability engineering, infrastructure planning, health checks and alerting.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science, equivalent degree or relevant experience
• 3+ years experience with Tableau, Thoughtspot or similar tools.
• Experience with programming in Python and Java
• Experience with public cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• Demonstrate strong understanding of BI and Analytics space, with exposure to multiple tools and their use cases
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills. Should be dedicated, highly motivated and ability to learn quick

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with administering Tableau server, Thoughtspot server or similar tools.
• Experience with IAC and cloud formation templates to automate AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Experience building scripts in Python or Java to automate tasks
• Experience installing and configuring BI tools with HA setup on various platforms including hybrid cloud
• In-depth understanding of authentication and authorization aspects of Tableau in addition to setting up federated SSO (SAML) for user access is a plus
• Experience in capacity planning, utilization reviews and performance monitoring/tuning is a plus
• Exposure on various database management systems, preferably SingleStore and Snowflakes along with advanced SQL skills