Senior Data Platform Engineer, Apple

$175.8-312.2k

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

AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Kafka
Spark
Realm
Flink
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

Apple

Personal technology company

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Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Be an early applicant

$175.8-312.2k

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

AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Kafka
Spark
Realm
Flink
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Company mission

Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in the realm of large-scale data processing infrastructure, showcasing a robust understanding of the complexities associated with such environments
  • Familiarity with a diverse set of technologies, including but not limited to Spark, Flink, Trino, Kafka, Iceberg, in the big data ecosystem
  • Strong hand-on programming skills, particularly in Java or other JVM languages, showcasing the ability to develop robust, scalable, and maintainable codebases for intricate data infrastructure
  • A strong sense of ownership and an unwavering commitment to excellence in all aspects of work
  • A customer-focused approach, combined with excellent listening skills and a deep understanding of user requirements. Be adept at translating user needs into actionable solutions and acting as a subject matter expert in customer discussions
  • Exhibit proficiency in scoping and prioritizing tasks with a focus on incremental delivery and an iterative approach, ensuring adaptability to evolving project requirements

Desirable

  • Experience with public cloud systems, particularly in AWS or GCP environments, is a great plus
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes is a significant plus
  • Proactive engagement with open-source community, aligning business objectives with the principles of collaborative development and innovation
  • (Nice to have) Experience with GPU / training / LLM / Inferencing

What the job involves

  • The Apple Maps Data Infrastructure team needs exceptional engineers to help build capabilities across a spectrum of technologies in a hybrid-cloud environment
  • As a key contributor, you will be at the forefront of shaping the technological landscape, focusing on data infrastructure, batch processing, real-time processing, and data Lakehouse technologies
  • This role offers a great opportunity to power a variety of business units through technological innovation at Apple
  • The team is committed to support the Apple Maps business by building technological capabilities that not only enable the business operations but also optimize infrastructure efficiency
  • We are facing challenges every day to deal with data at an extensive scale
  • That is why we are looking for strong engineers who love solving challenging problems through conducting independent research and collaborating with teams across Apple
  • As a senior member of our team, you will be at the forefront of tackling challenging problems and addressing a wide array of use cases
  • Your role involves delivering innovative solutions, providing insightful perspectives on emerging technologies, and making platform-level impacts
  • This is an opportunity to work on innovative projects that demand creativity, strategic thinking, and a commitment to excellence
  • We are looking for an exceptionally curious and motivated candidate who is excited by the opportunity to rapidly build the reputation of subject matter of expert in data processing platform across the org
  • You will collaborate with a wide range of internal teams, listening intently to understand their problems and true underlying needs
  • Using your problem-solving abilities, you will draw insights that enable you to scope, architect, and deliver innovative high-quality solutions
  • This role offers substantial scope for capability-building across multiple domains and technologies, learning deeply from our expert teams of developers, data engineers, and data scientists
  • The candidate is expected to have strong fundamentals in data domains that will facilitate self-directed learning driven by intellectual curiosity
  • We provide a collaborative environment that empowers you to expand your expertise rapidly
  • You will engage broadly across the organization, using excellent communication skills to translate needs into solutions
  • If accelerating your learning excites you and you aspire to become a leading authority in multiple technology spheres, this is the opportunity for you

Our take

With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.

Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.

The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.

Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.

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Company benefits

  • Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
  • In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
  • You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
  • Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
  • Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
  • You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
  • At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
  • Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
  • To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
  • Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
  • For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
  • Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
  • When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
  • Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
  • And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more

Company values

  • We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
  • We believe in the simple, not the complex
  • We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
  • We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
  • We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
  • We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
  • We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change

Company HQ

Cupertino, CA

Leadership

Tim Cook

(CEO, not founder)

Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America

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