Apple

Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree required
  • 10+ years of data engineering experience, focusing on large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Proficiency in data modeling and schema design for analytics
  • Strong background with distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark
  • Extensive knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Cassandra, and Redis
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow
  • Hands-on experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable data pipelines for optimized data processing
  • Transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights for decision-making
  • Leverage ML model inference for data enrichment and transformation
  • Deploy and optimize ML models in production environments
  • Ensure data governance and security standards are met
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet data needs
  • Maintain and enhance existing data architectures and frameworks

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools
  • Flexibility in work arrangements
  • Commitment to data governance and security standards
Full Job Description
Description

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with deep expertise in ETL/ELT, data architecture, and applied ML pipelines to design, build, and operate this infrastructure. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for creating the massively scalable pipelines that turn raw data into a trusted foundation, driving critical decision-making and operations across the entire system.

Minimum Qualifications

Masters Degree

10+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT data pipelines

Proficiency in data modeling, especially dimensional modeling, and designing schemas optimized for analytics and reporting

Experience with leveraging databases including SQL/NoSQL Databases (including Postgres / Cassandra / Redis)

Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks including Apache Spark

Strong experience with Parallel processing frameworks: BigTable/Hadoop

Strong software engineering fundamentals and proven experience with Scala, Java

Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Iceberg, and Flink.

Experience with workflow orchestration tools including Apache Airflow and Beam

Experience with AWS: e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, BigQuery, Kinesis, or similar services

Experience with Analytics frameworks including Trino (Presto, BigQuery, Snowflake)

Hands-on experience with big data lake architectures

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) and CI/CD tooling including Jenkins

Experience in Python and PySpark

Familiarity with graph databases such as TigerGraph

Experience building pipelines that process multimodal data (structured and image) and integrate ML model inference - including LLMs and embedding models - for data enrichment and transformation

Hands-on experience deploying, serving, and optimizing LLMs or ML models directly in the production, inference runtimes/compilers (ONNX Runtime, TensorRT/TensorRT-LLM), and serving frameworks (Triton, vLLM, TorchServe or similar).

Experience tuning batching, KV-cache, and GPU utilization for low-latency, high-throughput real-time inference in a data pipeline

Knowledge of data governance principles, data security best practices, and data privacy regulations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with data versioning tools and frameworks (e.g., DVC, Delta Lake)

Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Experience storing/serving embeddings (e.g., pgvector, Milvus, FAISS)

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
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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