Apple

Data Engineer, Apple Ads

Apple$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in software or data engineering with production systems.
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Java and/or Scala with production experience.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing using Apache Spark.
  • Deep understanding of Spark's mechanisms: partitioning, shuffles, joins, performance tuning.
  • Experience with data processing architectures (batch and streaming).
  • Strong SQL and analytical dataset handling skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for advertising events.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical requirements.
  • Optimize performance and ensure reliability in distributed data systems.
  • Debug complex data pipelines and resolve issues effectively.
  • Translate business needs into technical solutions for data processing.
  • Build and maintain high-quality, production-level software.
  • Ensure data quality and correctness across processing systems.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with leading technologies in data engineering.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Potential for significant impact on advertising data infrastructure.
  • Engagement with complex and large-scale data systems.
  • A chance to contribute to cutting-edge data solutions.
Full Job Description
As a Software Engineer on the Apple Ads data engineering team, you will help build the next generation of scalable data processing and reporting infrastructure. You will design and implement distributed data pipelines that process large volumes of advertising events across batch, near-real-time, and streaming execution environments. You will work on systems where correctness, data quality, performance, reliability, and privacy are critical. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who also has hands-on experience with Apache Spark and large-scale data processing. You should be comfortable reasoning about distributed systems, debugging complex data pipelines, optimizing Spark workloads, designing data models, and building production-quality software around big-data processing frameworks. You will collaborate with engineers, product teams, data scientists, SREs, and other cross-functional partners to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of professional software engineering or data engineering experience building production systems.

Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems concepts.

Strong programming skills in Java and/or Scala, with experience writing production-quality software.

Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines using Apache Spark.

Strong understanding of Spark concepts including partitioning, shuffles, joins, caching, execution plans, memory management, and performance tuning.

Experience designing distributed batch and/or streaming data processing systems.

Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, S3/object storage, or equivalent large-scale data infrastructure.

Strong SQL skills and experience working with large analytical datasets.

Expertise in distributed systems and data processing technologies (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Flink)

Understanding of data modeling, partitioning strategies, schema evolution, and efficient storage formats such as Parquet.

Experience building reliable production systems with appropriate testing, monitoring, alerting, and operational support.

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, particularly across complex distributed systems.

Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with technical and non-technical cross-functional partners.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing and operating petabyte-scale data processing systems.

Deep expertise in Apache Spark performance tuning and optimization.

Experience with Apache Iceberg or similar modern data lake/lakehouse technologies.

Experience with both batch and real-time/streaming architectures, including Kafka and/or Flink.

Experience building data platforms or processing frameworks that are reused by multiple teams or pipelines.

Experience with AWS technologies, including S3 and Kubernetes/EKS or equivalent cloud platforms.

Experience running distributed workloads using Kubernetes and containerized environments.

Familiarity with analytical data stores and query engines such as Druid, Trino, or similar technologies.

Experience designing systems that support replay, backfills, reprocessing, and late-arriving data.

Experience implementing data-quality, reconciliation, lineage, or data-contract frameworks.

Understanding of privacy-preserving data processing and secure handling of large-scale datasets.

Experience building systems for advertising, measurement, reporting, or analytics.

Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex projects and drive them from design through production.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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