Software Engineer, Apple
Analytics & Data Engineering
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
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
- Experience shipping high quality, performant and reliable data products and features
- Proficiency in Scala or Java, with an understanding of recent language features and frameworks. We believe great engineers are capable of learning new technologies, but experience in the above will be beneficial
- Solid understanding of distributed data processing concepts
- Experience with scalable data storage technologies. Examples include but not limited to, NoSQL stores such as Cassandra and distributed filesystems such as S3 and HDFS
- Sophisticated analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The ASE Analytics & Data Engineering team is responsible for building analytics platforms, datasets and processes required by Apple for analysing and powering customer experiences
- This means we build computation platforms and datasets to empower our product, marketing, feature, analytic and data science teams. Given the size and complexity of our datasets, this is not a trivial task
- We are looking for an outstanding Software Engineer who can effectively collaborate with our partner teams to deliver data engineering solutions to improve and power the next generation of Apple features
- You will be working on cross-functional projects with other engineering teams, product leads and analytics leaders to build insights, metrics and data pipelines
- The projects you will be working on will be truly impactful. You will have the freedom to innovate as you work closely with our partners to drive meaningful change and build elegant systems to deliver the results
- The ideal candidate will have a strong quality focus and be motivated by taking early production systems and developing them into services which can be run reliably at scale
- Our systems are large scale and highly distributed in nature and you will be able to reason about complex failure modes which could occur. Attention to detail and a perseverance to deliver a high-quality, well tested and maintainable code, is a must
Salary benchmarks
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
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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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