Job Details

Role Number: 200614973-0157

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, revolutionary ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Join the Services Data Science & Analytics Platform and AI Engineering team to enable Data Science with robust data platforms for analytics. Together, we'll create resilient, scalable infrastructure that enables our analytics systems to operate seamlessly at enterprise scale while safeguarding what matters most – our customers' privacy and trust.

Description

As a Senior Data Platforms Software Engineer, you will define the technical vision and lead the architectural evolution of platform infrastructure that enables Data Science for Apple Services. You will drive strategic platform decisions, mentor analytics teams, and influence technical direction across multiple organizations while building and optimizing the platform that supports our analytics ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience

• 7+ years of experience in software architecture design and development with expertise in Service Oriented Architecture, and Distributed Systems

• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership roles focused on platform engineering or infrastructure

• Proficiency with containerized technologies (Docker) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Terraform)

• Proven ability to design, operate, and maintain distributed systems (monitoring, observability, automation, etc.)

• Proven development skills building backend API services using Python (preferred) and/or JavaScript

• Practical experience with asynchronous programming, type safety, threading models, state machines and data structures

• Experience with data processing frameworks and query engines like Spark, Trino, and Snowflake

• Experience with managed cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with non-technical audience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies including LLMs, AI Agents (LangChain, Google ADK, etc.)

• Track record designing client-agnostic APIs using REST and/or GraphQL

• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 fundamentals (authentication, delegated authorization, etc)

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