Senior Data Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

People at Apple don’t just build products they craft the kind of experience that have revolutionized entire industries. The diverse collection of our people and their ideas inspire innovation in everything we do. Imagine what you could do here!

The Apple Services Engineering Security team builds and provides secure systems and infrastructure that fuel Apple’s services (such as iCloud, iTunes, Siri, App Store, and Maps). As part of the ASE Security team, you will help manage the security needs of Apple’s services around the world. You will build and integrate the security controls, guardrails, and frameworks that help protect our customers data in Apple’s infrastructure.

Your effort will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security challenges in software supply chain, security posture, and risk management. Join us, and you’ll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world.

We’re looking for exceptional data engineers who have a strong background in distributed data processing, have great and demonstrable data intuition, and share our passion for continuously improving the ways we use data to make the Apple’s products, applications, and platform secure, safe, and better.

• Engineer efficient, adaptable and scalable data pipelines to process structured and unstructured data
• Own and evolve extremely rich datasets to power a wide variety of use cases for security posture
• Build forward-looking data solutions that interface well with existing systems and use judgement to bring cutting edge technologies in the industry to suit security needs
• You will be accountable to produce quality software that meet service level objectives
• Participate in code and security reviews to help your peers to meet high standards for infrastructure at Apple
• Research, prototype, and present ideas and designs to your team, management, and internal customers

• 5+ years of experience working with Spark and other distributed data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Presto, Flink, Druid) for building efficient & large scale data pipelines
• Highly proficient in at least one of Java, Python or Scala
• Deep expertise in Data Principles, Data Architecture & Data Modeling, Strong SQL skills
• Familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, RDS etc)
• MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Data Engineering

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud
• Experience with OSI model and understanding of how network works (Load Balancer, Routers, network tagging, Net Flow)
• Understanding of the full technology stack (from BMCs, Firmware, to OS layer, to containers and applications) primitives
• Experience with building stream-processing applications using Apache Flink, Spark-Streaming, Apache Storm, Kafka Streams or others
• Experience with Search systems (such as Elastic Search, Solr), No
  
  SQL data stores (such as HBase, Cassandra, Mongo
  
  DB)

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.