Data Engineer jobs in Singapore

The people here at Apple don't just create products - they create the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. We work in a startup atmosphere where individuals take ownership and have significant impact on the final product.We are a dynamic team within Apple’s Worldwide Sales organization, Data Solutions & Initiatives—focused on driving innovation through product design, engineering, and portfolio management. In our startup-like environment, we move quickly, experiment boldly, and expect our team to take full ownership of what they deliver. We’re looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to build and operate the data infrastructure that powers analytics, automation, and AI across our business. You’ll work on distributed data systems, cloud-native services, and internal tooling that makes data discoverable, trustworthy, and ready for intelligent applications.This role is part of our Singapore engineering hub and works closely with our US-based team to deliver reliable, scalable data solutions that fuel decision-making, modeling, and business operations.

You’ll design and build core components of our internal data platform, spanning ingestion pipelines, semantic layers, and metadata systems. You’ll help bridge open source technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Iceberg) with our internal ecosystem—shaping how teams discover, use, and trust data for analytics and AI workloads.You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, program managers, and end users to understand data needs and evolve platform capabilities that improve scale, quality, and usability. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on systems thinking, technical craftsmanship, and delivering tools that unlock real business value.Key Responsibilities- Build scalable, cloud-native data systems that support data exploration, reporting, and production ML/AI use cases- Integrate open-source components with internal tools and APIs to streamline platform usability- Develop and maintain data ingestion pipelines, metadata services, and performance-optimized storage layers- Ensure the platform supports AI-readiness, including high-quality, discoverable, and semantically rich data- Collaborate with internal customers to understand workflows and shape new platform features- Partner with engineers, EPMs, and US-based teams to ensure alignment, reusability, and shared standards- Support production systems through monitoring, debugging, and operational improvements

• 4+ years of experience building distributed data applications or cloud-native platforms
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java, with experience developing scalable and maintainable systems
• Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Experience with modern data infrastructure tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Iceberg)
• Understanding of BI and analytics needs, and experience building for internal business use cases

• Experience designing and building cloud-based applications, APIs, and data services
• Familiarity with AI/ML pipeline enablement (e.g., feature engineering, real-time pipelines, metadata)
• Experience with Kubernetes, distributed compute frameworks, or containerized environments
• Hands-on experience integrating with business intelligence or visualization tools (e.g., Streamlit, Tableau, Looker)
• Exposure to anomaly detection, forecasting, or GenAI use cases and the data requirements they demand
• Experience working in global teams or serving as a technical contributor in a regional hub