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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Data Platform

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on Apache DataFusion Comet, Apache Spark, and related open-source technologies to scale Apple’s data platform. Design, implement, and upstream contributions for high-performance query execution, integrate native operators with Spark, optimize memory/I/O, and accelerate Iceberg/Parquet reads and writes across on-prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, test, and ship high-performance engine features and platform components that power Apple's big data workloads.
  • Translate Apple-scale challenges into robust designs and contribute them upstream to projects such as Apache Spark and Apache DataFusion Comet.
  • Actively participate in open-source communities through upstream code contributions, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
  • Partner across teams to build automation and monitoring that streamline deployment and triage.
  • Optimize runtime efficiency, memory usage, and I/O so services scale reliably across data centers and cloud environments under growing load.
  • Build clean, well-defined interfaces and abstractions that integrate native query execution seamlessly into broader data workflows and platform services.
  • Join a collaborative team where your code directly shapes the efficiency, speed, and architectural future of Apple's data ecosystem

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • A proven track record of building distributed systems.
  • Contributor or committer to Apache Spark and/or Apache DataFusion, Comet.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsApache SparkApache DataFusion/CometPerformance optimization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation assistance
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan participation
  • discretionary employee stock program eligibility
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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