Software Developer​/Data Engineer - Music

Overview

We are seeking a hardworking, performance-savvy engineer to build out the big data platform and services, which power many of these customer features — existing and new. As a core member of the Data Engineering team you will be responsible for designing and implementing features that rely on processing and serving very large datasets with an awareness of scalability. This will include crafting systems to model, ingest, process and compute large-scale, mission-critical data across Apple Music.

High-throughput and reliability are essential. The computed datasets are produced for internal reporting used by executives and they are also shared across many teams within the ASE organization, such as the Search team, Recommendation team, AB team, Marketing team. You will also enjoy the benefits of working in a fast growing business where you are encouraged to “Think Different” to solve very interesting technical challenges and where your efforts play a key role in the success of Apple’s business.

This is your opportunity to help engineer highly visible global-scale systems with petabytes of data, supporting hundreds of millions of users. Come join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

• Lead technical discussions with engineering teams, data scientists, and business stakeholders to define data requirements and drive the execution of complex projects.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle: architecting, designing, implementing, and testing highly scalable and efficient data processing pipelines.
• Create technical design documents and drive consensus across stakeholders.
• Work with our QA and SRE teams to establish and meet quality and reliability goals.
• Design, implement and support highly scalable data systems and services
• Build large-scale data pipelines, including data ingest from various sources to feed batch and near-realtime or streaming compute components
• Drive innovation and explore new technologies to improve our data infrastructure.
• Represent our team in meetings and drive consensus across participants.
• Create reusability across our features and our engineering stack e.g. utilising standard libraries and contributing to their development.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and elevating the team’s capabilities through code reviews and design guidance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or related field
• At least 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Proficiency and hands-on experience in at least one of Java or Scala.
• Experience with Apache Flink or Spark
• Skilled at writing clean, performant and well-tested code, as well as reviewing and debugging existing code.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures.
• A strong command of distributed data processing fundamentals and patterns (e.g., partitioning, data locality, distributed consensus).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs and concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Good critical thinking skills.

• Experience with Apache Iceberg tables
• Experience with Apache Beam
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow

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 $147,400 and $272,100, 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…