Apple Music, Data Engineering Software Engineer

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Data Engineering Software Engineer to build out their big data platform with a focus on scalability and reliability. You will play a pivotal role in developing systems that handle vast amounts of data, directly influencing Apple Music's performance and functionality.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Reimbursement for educational expenses

Opportunity to purchase company stock

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant industry experience in data engineering.
• Expertise in large-scale data systems design and support.
• Experience with data lake and warehouse solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for big data platform.
• Handle large-scale datasets and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with multiple teams on data-driven projects.

Skills

Distributed computing technologies

Data modeling

Data architecture

Data pipelines

Scalability

SQL

Java

Scala

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related field

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Apache Flink

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Airflow

Job description

Apple Music, Data Engineering Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States Software and Services

Description

We are seeking a hardworking, performance-savvy, engineer to build out the big data platform and services, which power many of these customer features — existing and new. As a core member of the Data Engineering team you will be responsible for designing and implementing features that rely on processing and serving very large datasets with an awareness of scalability. This will include crafting systems to model, ingest, process and compute large-scale, mission-critical data across Apple Music. High-throughput and reliability are essential. The computed datasets are produced for internal reporting used by executives and they are also shared across many teams within the ASE organization, such as the Search team, Recommendation team, AB team, Marketing team. You will also enjoy the benefits of working in a fast growing business where you are encouraged to “Think Different” to solve very interesting technical challenges and where your efforts play a key role in the success of Apple’s business. This is your opportunity to help engineer highly visible global-scale systems with petabytes of data, supporting hundreds of millions of users. Come join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or related field
• At least 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Experience with distributed computing technologies such as Hadoop and Spark
• Proficiency in Scala, Java and SQL
• Expertise in designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable data systems and services
• Expertise building and running large-scale data pipelines, including distributed messaging such as Kafka, data ingest from various sources to feed batch and near-realtime or streaming compute components
• Solid understanding of data-modeling and data-architecture optimized for big data patterns, such as efficient storage and query on HDFS
• Experience with distributed storage and network resources, at the level of hosts, clusters and DCs, to troubleshoot and prevent performance issues
• Experience with data lake and data warehouse solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Apache Flink
• Experience with Apache Iceberg tables
• Experience with Apache Beam
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow

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 $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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 .