Apple · 3 months ago
Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Spark, Kafka, Iceberg), Apple Data Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $302K/yr
8+ years expApple is seeking extraordinary software engineers with deep experience in scalable streaming processing systems. The role involves advancing their data infrastructure and collaborating with a dedicated team to enhance and automate systems that support millions of users worldwide.
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Responsibilities
Advance our data infrastructure, driving innovation by implementing cutting-edge capabilities and tools that will power Apple Services Engineering
Collaborate closely with a dedicated team of open source data experts (including Spark, Kafka, Iceberg committers amongst others) to enhance and automate our infrastructure, ensuring seamless management across both data centers and cloud services
Contribute to the resilience, scalability, and performance of the systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional experience
A successful track-record or demonstrated aptitude as an engineer who has worked on distributed systems
Experienced Poweruser (at least 2 years of running production applications) of Apache Spark or Committer to Apache Spark
BS or MS degree in computer science or equivalent
Preferred
Good knowledge of Apache Iceberg and Apache Kafka
Experience working on or building connectors from Spark to any of the data sources
Knowledge of Yarn, Kubernetes or other compute substrate
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Tim Cook
CEO
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SVP, Software Engineering
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