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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, 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
- **Published:** May 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=07cbe8f4d91994fb

## About the Role

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

## 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.","responsibilities":"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


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