Sr Software Development Engineer
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Athena Platform Services (APS) is looking for a Software Engineer to help build the data and machine learning platforms that power intelligent risk decisioning across Apple. Athena enables teams to turn data into action, scaling models and analytics that detect fraud, prevent abuse, and help protect millions of users across Apple's products and services every day., In this role, you will work with large-scale data to design, build, and enhance our scalable offline decisioning platform, providing frameworks and tools for feature engineering, model training, graph databases, and offline analytics. While familiarity with machine learning concepts is helpful, the primary focus is on platform engineering, with opportunities to learn ML tools on the job. The platform ingests hundreds of thousands of TPS transactional data in near real time, enabling teams to work with large-scale datasets efficiently.","responsibilities":"Build scalable offline decisioning platforms and frameworks to support feature engineering, model training, and offline analytics.
Develop automated pipelines and tools for managing large-scale data and ML workflows.
Drive innovation, building next-generation platforms that act as a force multiplier for ML and data science teams.
Define and enforce best practices for CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability.
Optimize performance, cost, and data quality, including monitoring, validation, and drift detection.
Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing across the team.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Software design?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Excellent communication skills and ability to analyze and resolve production issues independently
Demonstrated bias for action, curiosity, and ability to adopt new technologies quickly
Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical collaboration
Strong systems thinking mindset for long-term reliability, scalability, and maintainability
Passionate about driving innovation through next-generation platforms that optimize offline decisioning and ML workflows for performance, accuracy, and scale
Exposure to ML/AI ecosystems, including feature engineering, model training pipelines, and GenAI tools
Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform technologies
Minimum Qualifications
6+ years building production-grade software or data platforms at scale
Proficient in Java, Python or Scala for data pipelines, frameworks, or ML workflows
Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or similar data processing frameworks
Experience with modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Iceberg) and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka)
Strong skills in designing, optimizing, and debugging large-scale offline data pipelines
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or similar degree or equivalent industry experience","internalDetails":null