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Software Development Engineer - Data

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, California$150.4k - $225.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer - Data to join the Reporting & Data Models team within ASE Content Data Engineering. Focus on modernizing and automating legacy data pipelines, building new reporting solutions, and maintaining a large reporting estate across Oracle and cloud-native platforms to support compliance, operational accuracy, and business intelligence for Apple’s online media platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain automated data pipelines and reporting systems across a hybrid stack spanning Oracle, Spark, Hadoop, and cloud object storage
  • Drive the migration of legacy report jobs to modern pipeline orchestration and cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, observability, and maintainability
  • Investigate and resolve pipeline failures, performance bottlenecks, and data quality issues across a large, interdependent reporting estate covering all content domains
  • Develop and maintain legal and regulatory-compliance reports where accuracy, auditability, and on-time delivery are non-negotiable
  • Onboard and publish curated datasets from operational data stores to the Apple Data Lakehouse, ensuring proper data governance, lineage documentation, and PII tagging
  • Extend and enhance internal content data platform models across all content domains: propagating schema changes, adding new columns and descriptors, and maintaining the accuracy of the platform's content-intelligence surface
  • Execute controlled, legally-gated production data modifications and archival/deletion programs under change control and with required legal approval
  • Contribute to the evolution of AI-assisted data tooling (e.g., Text-to-SQL), automating and accelerating how stakeholders access and query content data

Qualifications

  • Minimum 1 year of experience as a Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or equivalent role
  • Strong experience with Spark and Spark SQL, including performance tuning and resource optimization
  • Strong experience with Hadoop, HDFS, and/or S3-compatible object storage
  • Experience writing SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle, including query optimization
  • Experience with Flink or Flink SQL for stream-based data processing
  • Experience with Java and/or Scala development
  • Experience building and maintaining automated data pipelines and job scheduling systems (e.g. Airflow)
  • Experience with CI/CD workflows and version-controlled deployment of data pipeline code
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container-based workload execution
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field OR Hands-on engineering experience and a demonstrable track record of building and maintaining production data systems are weighted equally alongside formal academic credentials.

Skills

Required:Spark / Spark SQLHadoop / HDFS / S3-compatible storageOracle SQL / PL/SQLJava / ScalaAirflowCI/CD for data pipelinesKubernetes
Nice to have:FlinkPython scripting

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility (where applicable)
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 31, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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