Apple · 14 hours ago
Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Flink, Apple Data Platform
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
8+ years expApple is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and services. The Apple Data Platform team is seeking extraordinary software engineers to enhance their data infrastructure and drive innovation in analytics and machine learning. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, optimizing cloud-based services, and contributing to open source projects.
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Responsibilities
As an engineer on our team, you will advance our data infrastructure, driving innovation by implementing cutting-edge capabilities and tools that will power Apple Services Engineering
You’ll collaborate closely with a dedicated team of open source data experts (including Spark, Flink, Kafka, Iceberg committers amongst others) to enhance and automate our infrastructure, ensuring seamless management across both data centers and cloud services
Your work will directly contribute to the resilience, scalability, and performance of the systems that support millions of users worldwide
Develop and deploy new features of Apple’s internal data platform
Regularly contribute to open source
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement automation tools that streamline operations and reduce manual intervention
Optimize our cloud-based services to ensure they scale effectively, handling increasing loads while maintaining high performance
Innovate on API development and integration, enabling seamless communication between our applications and services
This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and evolving team where your contributions will shape the future of our Apple’s technology landscape
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional experience
A successful track-record or demonstrated aptitude as an engineer who has worked on distributed systems
Experienced Poweruser (at least 2 years of running production applications) of Apache Flink or Committer to Apache Flink
BS or MS degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience
Preferred
Good knowledge of Apache Iceberg and Apache Kafka
Experience working on or building connectors from Flink to any of the data sources
Knowledge of Yarn, Kubernetes or other compute substrate
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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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.67BKey Investors
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2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $4.5B
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Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
Craig Federighi
SVP, Software Engineering
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