Senior Data Engineer

Apple Inc.
Austin, TX, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Big Data Data as a Services Data Architecture Information Engineering Data Stores Data Systems Database Queries Distributed Computing Environment
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Distributed Data Store Elasticsearch Firmware Apache Hadoop Apache HBase OSI Models Python (Programming Language) MongoDB NetFlow NoSQL Apache Solr Unstructured Data Network Routers Google Cloud Load Balancing Cloud Platform System Apache Spark Amazon Relational Database Service Information Technology Druid Apache Flink Cassandra Apache Kafka Spark Streaming Presto Stream Processing Data Pipelines Service Stack Apache Storm

Job description

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.ā€,ā€responsibilitiesā€:ā€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

Requirements

Do you have experience in Schema design?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, 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, NetFlow)

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 ElasticSearch, Solr), NoSQL datastores (such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB)

Experience building distributed, high-volume data services

Minimum Qualifications

8+ 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

About the company

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.

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