Finance Data Engineer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 146,300 - 244,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Finance Data Engineer in Cupertino, California. You will create data interfaces and pipelines that drive innovative data products for Apple Finance, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure robust solutions.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, proficient in Python and SQL, and experience in cloud environments. The role offers a competitive compensation package including stock options, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for advancement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant Data Engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with database design in cloud environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and version control components.

Responsibilities

• Create data interfaces and pipelines for Apple Finance.
• Collaborate with various teams to identify data needs.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines.

Skills

Python programming

SQL programming

Data pipeline development

Database design

Cloud technologies (AWS, Snowflake)

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Cupertino, California, United States Corporate Functions

The Finance Data Engineer is a technical expert who creates data interfaces, pipelines and codebase that drives innovative data products for Apple Finance. They build reliable, accurate, consistent, and architecturally sound solutions that are aligned with business needs. This role requires working cross‑functionally with business users, IS&T, data scientists and other engineers to develop and deploy data services and pipelines. An ability to acquire knowledge of Finance business processes is important. You will be working in an enterprise data warehouse and lakehouse environments to help identify and combine data in an efficient, scalable manner to help answer business questions.

Description

• Work closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and business partners to identify, capture, collect, load and format data from external sources, internal systems, and the data warehouse.
• Develop, test, deploy, monitor, document and troubleshoot data pipelines and feature‑ready datasets.
• Collaborate with other engineers to define and adopt best practices for translating finance use cases into data requirements, schemas, and retrieval patterns for RAG, agents, and other LLM workflows.
• Identify and review capabilities of emerging technologies and enable the adoption of these new technologies and associated techniques.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant Data Engineering experience.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative discipline required with five or more years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective Python, shell and SQL programming skills.
• Hands‑on experience with database design and architecture in cloud data warehouses (Snowflake) and lakehouse environments (S3).
• Ability to implement end‑to‑end encryption and decryption policies as part of sensitive data pipelines and semantic views or other data sources.
• Experience with the data development lifecycle and its associated CI/CD and version control components and tooling (Jenkins, Git, other).
• Exposure to cloud storage and orchestration tooling such as AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with streaming interfaces and pipelines a plus.
• Ability to implement data and automation services via RESTful interfaces.
• Appreciation for data quality and validation in every pipeline.
• Finance and accounting process experience a plus.

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 $146,300 and $244,100, 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.

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