Apple · 1 month ago
Senior / Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer for Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
10+ years expApple is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior / Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer for their Data Platform team. The role focuses on building and operating a large-scale data platform and leading the data lakehouse team to enhance infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
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Responsibilities
Build and operate Apple’s largest data platform supporting exabyte scale
Scale and operationalize the largest custom build multi-tenant, highly secure, privacy enabled Data Lakehouse
Ensure data platform offers reliable high quality data with consistent SLAs with good monitoring, alerting and incident response and continual investment to reduce tech-debt
Write code, documentation, participate in code reviews, and mentor other engineers
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in design and development of scaling, and operation of distributed systems, including technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, and Hive, along with resource management systems like Apache Mesos and Kubernetes
Proficient in Java or Scala
Proven expertise in designing and developing scalable, reliable APIs
A hands-on approach with a willingness to engage in daily technical work
Skilled at debugging complex issues in large-scale distributed systems
Driven by a passion for building reliable, maintainable, and user-friendly products and services
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and functions
Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
Preferred
Expertise in public cloud platform's like AWS, S3, EKS, IAM
Contributor to open source technologies like Spark or Iceberg
Expertise in building Lakehouse for large scale data platforms
Contributions to Open-Source projects like Apache Iceberg are a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
10001+ employees
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