Apple

Software Development Engineer - Data

Apple$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1 year experience as a Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or equivalent role
  • Strong experience with Spark and Spark SQL, focusing on performance tuning
  • Proficient in Hadoop, HDFS, and/or S3-compatible object storage
  • Hands-on Python scripting for data processing and automation
  • Experience with SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle, especially in query optimization
  • Expertise in maintaining automated data pipelines and job scheduling systems
  • Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and version-controlled deployment

Responsibilities

  • Modernize and automate legacy data pipelines
  • Build new reporting solutions across Oracle and cloud-native platforms
  • Maintain large-scale reporting systems
  • Deliver compliance extracts meeting legal deadlines
  • Troubleshoot production-impacting issues under time pressure
  • Communicate technical findings to non-engineering stakeholders
  • Evolve data pipelines and reporting systems to meet business needs

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment on significant systems
  • Opportunity to impact regulatory compliance and operational accuracy
  • Engagement with technically challenging projects
  • Potential growth in knowledge of online media
  • Exposure to advanced data engineering practices
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer - Data to join our Reporting & Data Models team. In this role, you will modernize and automate legacy data pipelines, build new reporting solutions, maintain a large and complex reporting estate across Oracle and cloud-native platforms, and help deliver compliance extracts that meet real-world legal deadlines across multiple jurisdictions. If you enjoy working on systems that matter, where your engineering choices directly impact operational accuracy, regulatory compliance, and business intelligence for one of the world's largest media platforms, we would love to hear from you.

Description

The ASE Content Data Engineering team is responsible for the internal business intelligence infrastructure that powers Apple's online media store. The data models and reports developed by this team supply information to engineering, business operations, and external content providers regarding the status of online media, including workflow status, availability, and incoming and outgoing volume.

This engineer will own and evolve a large portfolio of data pipelines and reporting systems, driving the ongoing migration from legacy infrastructure to modern pipeline orchestration and cloud-based storage, while also delivering net-new reports and data models in response to business, engineering, and regulatory needs. The role demands a blend of engineering rigor, data fluency, and a strong reliability mindset: the team's reports directly support legal and compliance obligations with hard, externally-imposed deadlines.

The ideal candidate brings a bias toward automation and self-healing pipelines over manual intervention, and is comfortable managing a broad portfolio of concurrent work, balancing urgent pipeline fixes against longer-horizon migration and enhancement projects. They can independently troubleshoot and resolve ambiguous, production-impacting issues under time pressure, and communicate technical findings clearly to non-engineering stakeholders across legal, business operations, and content provider teams. Knowledge of or genuine curiosity about online media is a plus.

Minimum 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

Hands-on experience with Python scripting for data processing and automation

Experience writing SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle, including query optimization

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Iceberg / Parquet-based table formats

Proficiency in macOS and Linux server environments

Experience using GenAI tools (e.g., Claude, OpenAI tools) to accelerate engineering tasks

Familiarity with cloud object storage migration patterns (HDFS to S3)

Experience with EKS or other cloud-based compute platforms

Familiarity with Trino or other distributed SQL query engines

Experience with Flink or Flink SQL for stream-based data processing

Familiarity with GenAI-assisted data access patterns (e.g., MCP servers, Text-to-SQL, LLM-assisted data documentation)

Familiarity with Tableau or similar data visualization and dashboarding tools

Experience with shell scripting for automation and pipeline support

Experience with Java development

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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