Senior Data Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $169k
This role $203k
$113k most similar roles pay here $279k

This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $135,675–$202,482 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $203k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Apple Inc

Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

Apple Inc currently has 2321 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1891 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will join the cybersecurity software engineering team to develop and support services that underpin mission-critical information security capabilities. You will be responsible for designing and optimizing data models, building data-intensive systems, and solving complex data challenges in collaboration with cross-functional teams. The role requires deep expertise in Apache Spark to push the boundaries of distributed computing environments. Your daily work involves developing production data pipelines at scale and implementing relational and medallion data architectures. You will utilize technologies including JVM languages such as Scala or Java, Golang, Swift, and big data platforms. Additionally, you may engage with ML/AI workflows, feature engineering, semantic models, knowledge graphs, and cloud compute environments like OpenStack, AWS, and Azure while ensuring high standards for data quality and governance.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $170950 from 215 postings across 56 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain services that underpin mission-critical information security capabilities.
  • Design and implement production data pipelines at a large scale.
  • Build and optimize complex data models and medallion architectures.
  • Develop state-of-the-art features for Apache Spark in distributed computing environments.
  • Implement ML/AI workflows and feature engineering to support analytics and reporting.
  • Manage data quality frameworks, validation techniques, and governance compliance.
  • Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews to ensure technical excellence.
  • Create documentation and contribute to technical best practices for the team.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of expertise in designing and implementing relational and medallion data architectures.
  • 4+ years of experience in the design and implementation of production data pipelines at scale.
  • 4+ years of proficiency with Spark, Golang, Swift, or JVM languages (Scala or Java preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering and expertise with data modeling (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience with big data platforms (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience with JVM languages such as Java or Scala (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud compute environments, ML/AI workflows, knowledge graphs, and data governance (preferred).
  • Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and contributing to technical documentation (preferred).

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