Data Engineer – Targeting Engineering, Apple Ads

Success Tech Solutions Inc.; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in New York is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to drive the development of privacy-preserving solutions. The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of experience, expertise in building large-scale data pipelines, and familiarity with cloud technologies like AWS, Spark, and Airflow. Applicants from an AdTech background are highly desirable. This role offers exciting challenges and opportunities for growth in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years professional experience in data engineering.
• Experience with distributed systems like Cassandra or Kubernetes.
• Worked in CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable and performant pipelines for large-scale data processing.
• Optimize analytic workloads by recognizing usage patterns.
• Design and implement testing strategies for data products.

Skills

Building data pipelines

Experience with AWS

Experience with Spark

Cloud environment familiarity

Strong programming skills (SQL, Python)

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS EMR

Airflow

Kafka

Docker

Trino

Job description

113 South Monroe Street, Suite 131, Tallahassee FL 32301

Mon - Fri : 8:30am - 5:00pm EST

Overview

At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads in App Store and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and setting new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.

The Apple Ads Targeting Engineering team is seeking a data engineer to join in developing the next generation of privacy preserving solutions. In this role you will be a key member of the team driving the development, execution, and continuous improvement of core pipelines and infrastructure. You will join a team of world-class data engineers hungry to apply leading-edge technologies to deliver extraordinary experiences to our data consumers. A successful candidate will have experience building data pipelines using varied engineering technologies such as AWS, EMR, EKS, Spark, Hive, SQL, Iceberg, Snowflake, Oracle, Airflow, and Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Use modern tools and technologies to build reliable and performant pipelines and infrastructure with extreme scale requirements
• Solve tough problems across the technology spectrum including designing, creating, and extending data storage, processing, and analytic solutions
• Automate and optimize existing analytic workloads by recognizing patterns of data and technology usage
• Must be able to work in a rapidly changing environment and perform effectively in a sprint-based agile development environment

Key Qualifications

• Background in computer science, mathematics, or similar quantitative field with a minimum of 7 years professional experience
• Demonstrated ability to implement and extend highly performant and resilient data services
• Worked in cloud environments and are familiar with object stores, and other common cloud-native data storage and processing frameworks
• Experience working with distributed systems (Cassandra, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• ETL and streaming experience using Spark, Kafka, Hive, Iceberg, or similar technologies at petabyte scale
• Demonstrated experience with relevant languages and frameworks such as Spark, Python, Java, SQL, Trino, Glue
• Experience with workflow scheduling / orchestration such as Airflow, DBT, etc.
• Ability to take requirements from design through to implementation both independently and working collaboratively within teams
• Ability to work closely with operational teams on deployment, monitoring, management concerns

Additional Requirements

• Ability to design and implement effective testing and operations strategies for data pipelines and data products
• Worked in CI/CD environments
• Experience with applying data encryption and data security standards
• Experience using one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, etc.)
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Understanding of modern data engineering approaches and are aware of what leading players are doing
• Experience implementing machine learning and data science workloads a plus
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a business-focused audience
• Experience in AdTech highly desirable
• Most importantly, a sense of humor and an eagerness to learn

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field; and experience designing, building, maintaining, and extending web-scale production systems.