Job Details

Software Development Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jun 05, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200606147

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Seattle, Washington. Build and operate Apple’s largest data infrastructure, supporting millions of Siri users. Design, deploy services, and collaborate with data engineers and scientists in AI/ML data platforms. Write code, document, and participate in code reviews. Scale and operationalize distributed systems like Spark, Kafka, Trino, or Hadoop in both on premise and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Ensure data infrastructure offers reliable high-quality data with consistent service level agreements (SLAs) monitoring, alerting, incident response and continual investment to reduce tech-debt. Capture search telemetry from physical devices and collect dozens of data sets from Apple, global partners, and the internet. Ensure the reliability and performance at the highest level and to evolve the platform infrastructure to meet our customer’s needs. Develop strategies and implement initiatives to increase customer engagement through targeted communication and personalized solutions, optimizing client satisfaction and retention. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and system administrators, to outline the structural needs of the data platform. This involves facilitating discussions to define requirements that accommodate diverse technical perspectives and align with overarching business objectives. Develop and maintain efficient data ingestion pipelines, ETL processes, and data transformation workflows to facilitate the timely and accurate processing of data. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $137,259 - $204,000/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. 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. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field.

• Experience and/or education must include:

• Designing, developing and maintaining customer-facing and internal-facing web applications using HTML, CSS, bootstrap and Python

• Developing RESTful APIs and backend microservices in Java, Python, Javascript.

• Architecting and implementing data solutions using modern data technologies such as Spark, Hive, and cloud-based services like AWS.

• Driving agile development methodologies, implementing robust DevOps pipelines leveraging Kubernetes, Python, cloud infrastructures, and Docker containers.

• Ability to design, develop, and manage complex DAGs for orchestrating end to end data pipelines using Apache Airflow.

• Implementing ETL processes to ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.

• Performing data transformation operations and generate dynamic data visualizations leveraging D3.js, python.

• Processing data with advanced preprocessing techniques like normalization to create accurate datasets for efficient information retrieval.

• Optimizing database performance and reliability using advanced SQL and NoSQL techniques.

• Leveraging CUDA and MPI libraries on GPU's to handle large-scale data processing workflows, achieving faster execution times and higher efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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