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Software Engineer (Data Analytics), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Apple· AiDP Data Services / IS&T
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Sunnyvale, CA$150.4k - $225.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer focused on data analytics and search services within Apple's AiDP Data Services, building data processing platforms, enabling data analytics and search across multiple engines, and supporting data migrations across hybrid-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and run data processing platforms with required monitoring, alerting, and incident management, achieving growing independence
  • Build working knowledge of data analytics and search concepts (distributed data processing, fast querying, consistency models) across OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Couchbase, Doris, Milvus, etc.
  • Support performance engineering efforts (profiling, tuning) under guidance from senior team members
  • Assist with service management across bare metal, virtualized (EC2, AliCloud ECS), and containerized (K8s) style platforms
  • Execute and support data migration tasks across hybrid clouds, including validation and rollback support
  • Build understanding of operating systems and datacenter architecture concepts relevant to transactional workloads
  • Produce and maintain clear documentation — Runbooks, architecture diagrams, and migration playbook updates
  • Support compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements applicable to China-based infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience in data analytics and/or data search space
  • Experience and knowledge of Python programming language
  • Production experience on data analytics database such as Clickhouse etc.
  • Exposure to running infrastructure with reliance on automation tooling, across Datacenter and Cloud architectures (including Alibaba Cloud and/or AWS)
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Some operational experience with stateful services on Kubernetes
  • Exposure to database-as-a-service control planes, provisioning APIs, or self-service tooling
  • Experience assisting with cross-cloud / hybrid-cloud data migrations for transactional systems
  • Familiarity with observability concepts (SLIs/SLOs), backup, and DR practices for OLTP/distributed-SQL engines
  • Solid troubleshooting skills, resourceful first-principles problem solving, and good technical writing habits
  • Contributions to open-source database projects or internal data-platform tooling

Skills

Required:PythonData analytics / data searchOpenSearch / ClickHouse / Couchbase / Doris / Milvus

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • employee stock programs (RSUs) / Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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