Sr Software Engineer

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Sr Software Engineer in USA

Apple
Full time
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USA
10/27/2026
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Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities

Own Apple’s device compute data lakehouse and transform raw device and compute events into reliable, fast-to-query datasets.
Build and run Apache Spark batch and Structured Streaming pipelines at production scale.
Design analytics tables and schemas in Apache Iceberg for forecasting, capacity planning, and organizational cross-charging.
Implement data quality checks, freshness and completeness alerting, and source-to-derived-data reconciliation.
Take ownership of event ingestion from Kafka over time.
Tune data tables and queries for dashboards accessed through Trino.
Collaborate with data analysts, full-stack engineers, application engineers, and teams across Apple.
Lead data platform, cost, and reliability improvements and mentor engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
7+ years of professional data engineering experience building production data pipelines at scale, including diagnosing and improving data job and query performance, or equivalent advanced degree plus experience.
Production experience with Apache Spark, including batch and Structured Streaming pipelines.
Strong data modeling skills and experience designing analytics schemas on Apache Iceberg or comparable lakehouse table formats.
Proficiency in Java or Scala and strong SQL skills.
Experience building production data quality checks and monitoring, including freshness and completeness alerting and source-to-derived-data reconciliation.
Productive use of AI coding tools in real delivery, with discipline to validate generated code and queries.
Excellent communication and critical thinking skills in a team environment.
Preferred: production Apache Kafka experience, Apache Flink experience including Iceberg sinks, exactly-once delivery, and stateful Kubernetes jobs.
Preferred: experience with data contracts, schema management as code, schema registries, dbt model contracts, Trino tuning, workflow orchestration, Python automation, dashboards or data applications, and data platform ownership.
Preferred: experience mentoring engineers and leading cost or reliability improvements.

Apple

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