Data Analytics Platform Engineer for AI & Search

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on data analytics to build data processing platforms and tooling for Apple's AI & Data Platforms.

You will contribute to data analytics and search services across OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and related databases in a large-scale environment. The role requires 3+ years in data analytics or data search, strong Python skills, and experience with cloud and on-prem data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in data analytics and/or data search space.
• Experience and knowledge of Python programming language.
• Production experience on data analytics database such as Clickhouse, etc.
• Exposure to running infrastructure with automation tooling across Datacenter and Cloud architectures (including Alibaba Cloud and/or AWS).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related work experience

Responsibilities

• Build and run data processing platforms with required monitoring, alerting, and incident management, achieving growing independence
• Build working knowledge of data analytics and search concepts across OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Couchbase, Doris, Milvus, etc.
• Support performance engineering efforts (profiling, tuning) under guidance from senior team members
• Assist with service management across bare metal, virtualized (EC2, AliCloud ECS), and containerized (K8s) style platforms
• Execute and support data migration tasks across hybrid clouds, including validation and rollback support
• Build understanding of operating systems and datacenter architecture concepts relevant to transactional workloads
• Produce and maintain clear documentation — Runbooks, architecture diagrams, and migration playbook updates
• Support compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements applicable to China-based infrastructure

Skills

Python

Data analytics

Data search

Distributed data processing

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSearch

ClickHouse

SingleStore

Couchbase

Doris

Milvus

Kubernetes

EC2

AliCloud

Job description

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on data analytics to build data processing platforms and tooling for Apple's AI & Data Platforms.

You will contribute to data analytics and search services across OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and related databases in a large-scale environment. The role requires 3+ years in data analytics or data search, strong Python skills, and experience with cloud and on-prem data infrastructure.