Sr. Software Engineer (Data Solutions), IS&T Ai & Data Platforms

Summary

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system.

Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless. Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here. AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation.

The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning — including generative AI — along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.

About the role

We engineer high-quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems on cloud that power data exploration, analytics, reporting and production models. Our core systems are diverse and come with an unusual intersection of high data volumes with systems distributed across cloud and on-premise infrastructure. On our team you will build solutions that integrate open source software with Apple’s internal ecosystem.

You will drive development of new components and features from concept to release: design, build, test, and ship at a regular cadence. You will work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements and workflows, and propose new features and ecosystem changes to streamline their experience of using the solutions on our platform. This is a hard-core software engineering role.

A large part of an engineer's time is spent in writing code and designing/developing applications on cloud, with the remainder being spent on tuning and debugging codebase, supporting production applications and supporting our application end users.

This role requires in-depth knowledge of innovative technologies and cloud data platform with the ability to independently learn new technologies and contribute to the success of various initiatives. We are looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team. If you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 or more years of experience developing enterprise level applications
• Implementation experience on Cloud with databases like SnowFlake, Big Query or Cloudera
• Programming experience with Python, Scala or Java.
• Experience in developing with SQL
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in designing and development of cloud-based applications that include large scale compute services, database services, APIs to design RESTful services, ETL, queues and notification services.
• Experience in Enterprise-ready Cloud Data-Warehousing platforms like Snowflake is highly valued
• Hands-on knowledge of Spark cluster-computing framework & Kubernetes or similar containerization technologies.
• Experience developing Big Data applications using Java, Spark, Kafka is a huge plus
• Understanding of fundamentals of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving
• Cloud technology experience on platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
• Data Visualization Tools: Proficient in data visualization, with experience in software such as Streamlit, Superset, Tableau, Business Objects, and Looker
• Data Insights and KPIs: Working experience on generating and visualizing data insights, metrics, and KPIs. Usage of basic ML models in the space of anomaly detection, forecasting, GenAI