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Software Engineer, IS&T Ai & Data Platforms

Apple· AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) / IS&T
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About the role

Software engineer role to build high-quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems powering Apple’s cloud analytics platforms and data pipelines within AiDP. Focus on enterprise cloud data warehousing, real-time and batch analytics, and integration of open source technologies with Apple’s internal ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Drive development of new components and features from concept to release: design, build, test, and ship at a regular cadence
  • Work closely with internal customers to understand requirements and workflows, proposing features and ecosystem changes to streamline user experience
  • Write code, design/develop applications on cloud, tune and debug codebase, support production applications and end users
  • Build solutions that integrate open source software with Apple’s internal ecosystem
  • Work with data platforms handling high data volumes across cloud and on-premise infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 3 or more years experience building enterprise level applications on large-scale distributed systems with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge of BI concepts and implementation experience on Cloud with databases like SnowFlake or Big Query or Cloudera
  • Programming experience in building high quality software. Proficiency in at least one of Python, Scala or Java
  • Strong hands-on experience in designing and development of cloud-based applications including large scale compute services, database services, APIs to design RESTful services, ETL, queues and notification services
  • Experience in developing highly optimized SQLs, procedures & semantic processes for distributed data applications
  • Experience in Enterprise-ready Cloud Data-Warehousing platforms like Snowflake is highly valued
  • Hands-on knowledge of Spark cluster-computing framework & Kubernetes or similar containerization technologies
  • Experience developing Big Data applications using Java, Spark, Kafka is a huge plus
  • Hands-on knowledge and experience in Apache Iceberg, Data Lakehouse architecture and implementation is a plus
  • Experience in Apache Doris or similar real-time high concurrency analytics platform
  • Understanding of fundamentals of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving
  • Cloud technology experience on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
  • Data Visualization Tools: proficient in Streamlit, Superset, Tableau, Business Objects, Looker
  • Data Insights and KPIs: generating and visualizing data insights, metrics, and KPIs; usage of basic ML models for anomaly detection, forecasting, GenAI

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designCloud platformsProgramming languagesSQL & data modeling
Nice to have:Big Data technologiesContainerizationBI & Visualization

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
  • Accessibility-focused workplace culture and tools
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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