Staff Data Engineer, Security Data Platform Lead

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to own the data model and production pipelines behind the Security data platform. You will shape architecture, enforce contracts, and scale data services that enable risk enrichment and ownership visibility across teams.

The role demands deep distributed data experience, strong SQL, and cross-functional leadership to drive production-ready pipelines that power posture analytics for iCloud, App Store, Music, TV+, and Commerce.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience with Spark and distributed data technologies (Hadoop, Presto, Flink, Druid) for large-scale data pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python or Scala.
• Deep expertise in Data Principles, Data Architecture & Data Modeling; strong SQL skills.
• Able to solve loosely defined problems with meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience in a complex, matrixed organization with cross-functional projects.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for technology strategy discussions.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, RDS, etc).
• Familiarity with OSI model and networking concepts (load balancers, routers, tagging, NetFlow).
• Understanding of full tech stack primitives from firmware to containers and apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering and data architecture for the RVM data platform and posture analytics.
• Own data model and pipeline contracts used across teams; productionize prototypes.
• Drive ownership attribution and risk enrichment as a service rather than ad-hoc work.
• Provide technical direction across a large engineering organization and partner with multiple teams.

Skills

Spark

Hadoop

Presto

Flink

Druid

Java

Python

Scala

Data modeling

SQL

Cloud basics (AWS)

Networking basics

System architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

OSImodel familiarity

Security data platform

Tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

Solr

HBase

Cassandra

MongoDB

Kafka

Kafka Streams

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to own the data model and production pipelines behind the Security data platform. You will shape architecture, enforce contracts, and scale data services that enable risk enrichment and ownership visibility across teams.

The role demands deep distributed data experience, strong SQL, and cross-functional leadership to drive production-ready pipelines that power posture analytics for iCloud, App Store, Music, TV+, and Commerce.