The Product Marketing Customer Analytics team is seeking a Finance Data Engineer to design and operate advanced, scalable customer analytics data pipelines and platforms. The role supports analytics, data analysis, and data science through batch and streaming infrastructure, data quality practices, and close collaboration with analytics consumers and data scientists.
Location
Austin, TX (onsite)
Salary
USD 149,200 - 249,000 per year
Responsibilities
- Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance, scalable data platforms for batch and/or streaming to improve analytics velocity.
- Design large-scale, complex applications and frameworks with strong runtime characteristics such as low latency, fault tolerance, and availability.
- Build and maintain custom frameworks that support engineering and analytics needs.
- Partner with analytics consumers and data scientists to improve existing constructs and solve data engineering problems at scale.
- Build and maintain data pipelines using Spark, Trino, lakehouse, and/or similar distributed platforms, including Snowflake.
- Implement inclusive data quality checks to help ensure high-quality data for downstream use.
- Promote high-quality software engineering practices for data infrastructure and pipelines built at scale.
- Use structured thinking to break down ambiguous problems and propose impactful solutions.
- Apply Generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques to enhance data analytics capabilities.
- Maintain strong documentation and technical writing, with effective verbal and written communication skills.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant Data Engineering experience.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Mathematics, or another quantitative discipline (required).
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering and ETL pipeline development.
- 5+ years of experience in Big Data Technologies including Spark, Lakehouse, and Trino.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker (preferred).
- Familiarity with RAG techniques in conjunction with LLMs.
- Experience creating and consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) services.
- Experience with Snowflake.
Technologies
- Spark
- Trino
- Lakehouse
- Snowflake
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Generative AI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- LLMs
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- Discounted products and free services.
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.
- Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments, and relocation if eligible.
- Base pay range between $149,200 and $249,000.