Apple

Software Engineer - Data Platform

Apple • $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, technical product management, or engineering-focused consulting
  • Strong software design skills with expertise in data structures and algorithms
  • Experience with data or analytics systems, frameworks, or toolkits
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, TypeScript, React, Angular, Ember, or Vue
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong communication skills to translate high-level analytics questions into engineering tasks
  • Ability to manage multiple programs with overlapping deadlines

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement innovative privacy-preserving systems for ASE products and services
  • Develop frameworks and tools for collecting analytics data across various platforms
  • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for client instrumentation capabilities
  • Manage the design, launch, and support of new data infrastructure for complex analytics needs
  • Advise stakeholders as a subject-matter expert on data collection impacts
  • Lead discussions with privacy and legal teams to balance analytics needs with consumer privacy

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity to work on innovative privacy-preserving technologies
  • Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including product managers and legal teams
  • Involvement in the end-to-end product lifecycle
  • Focus on high-level analytics questions at scale
Full Job Description
Description

You'll be tasked with designing, launching, and supporting new data tooling and standards to answer high-level analytics questions at scale.

Your responsibilities will include all aspects of software development management, from brainstorming, design and analysis to development, implementation and maintenance. Additionally, you'll be tasked with defining the strategy for new data infrastructure products as necessary to answer high-level analytics questions at scale. Finally, you will be expected to create and maintain instrumentation specifications, documents that specify what fields and values are collected and when for all new features released across ASE products and services.

To accomplish all this, you'll collaborate with a wide range of collaborators including product managers, client and server engineering, data scientists/business analysts, privacy engineers and attorneys, QA, and more.

You will:

* Design, and implement innovative Privacy-preserving systems to be used across ASE products and services

* Design and develop frameworks and tools to collect analytics data from our products and services on all platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, web browsers, and third party platforms.

* Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for client instrumentation capabilities, creating detailed specifications that provide clear guidance to engineering, data science, and QA stakeholders

* Manage the end-to-end design, launch, and support of new data infrastructure as needed to address complex analytics needs, including technical system design and implementation

* Advise business and engineering stakeholders by serving as a data collection subject-matter-expert who understands how analytics-related asks will impact numerous server and client engineering systems

* Lead discussions with privacy and legal teams to ensure that both Apple's analytics needs are met and consumer privacy is protected

Minimum Qualifications

Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple

5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, technical product manager, or engineering-focused management consultant

Strong software design skills, coupled with a deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Comfort working with large, cross-functional teams spread across multiple locations

Strong communication and collaboration skills: The ability to translate ambiguous high-level analytics questions into concrete engineering asks

Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously with overlapping deadlines

5+ years of professional experience with some or all of the following: data or analytics systems, frameworks or toolkits, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, TypeScript, React, Angular, Ember, Vue

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to assist in the creation and enforcement of privacy and compliance policies and guidelines across ASE and Apple

Industry experience in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for large-scale distributed systems

Experience with differential privacy, private data-synchronization across systems and devices, data minimization, tokenization, cryptography

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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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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