Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform

The Apple Data Platform team part of the Services organization powers analytics and machine learning across Apple. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge reliable and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion storage processing and interaction enabling teams to build data-intensive applications with ease and role sits within the Data Lakehouse team a part of the Apple Data Platform. The team provides a fully managed Lakehouse solution powered by Apache Iceberg Iceberg REST Catalog and custom-built services to manage data at scale. Our platform supports both analytical and machine learning workloads across Apple serving key products and organizations including Siri Search Media iCloud News Apple Intelligence and Maps. We continuously innovate to meet evolving customer needs and market seek engineers passionate about building world-class infrastructure this role you will lead the data lakehouse team guiding team members in both technical and professional growth. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to lead the planning execution and success of technical projects with a focus on enhancing the experience for Apples internal customers.

The ideal candidate will have outstanding communication skills proven data infrastructure/platform design and implementation capabilities strong business acumen and an innate drive to deliver results. He/she will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity and will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.n

Build and operate Apples largest data platform supporting exabyte and operationalize the largest custom build multi-tenant highly secure privacy enabled Data data platform offers reliable high quality data with consistent SLAs with good monitoring alerting and incident response and continual investment to reduce tech-debtnWrite code documentation participate in code reviews and mentor other engineersn

10 years of experience in design and development of scaling and operation of distributed systems including technologies like Apache Spark Kafka Flink and Iceberg along with resource management systems like Kubernetes or AWS in Java or in Apache Iceberg and Iceberg Rest Catalog specificationnProven expertise in designing and developing scalable reliable hands-on approach with a willingness to engage in daily technical to Open-Source projects like Apache Iceberg are a at debugging complex issues in large-scale distributed by a passion for building reliable maintainable and user-friendly products and communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.n

Expertise in public cloud platforms like AWS S3 EKS to open source technologies like Spark or in building Lakehouse for large scale data with development of Iceberg Rest Catalogs like Apache Polaris Graviton etc.n