Senior Data Engineer, Services Special Projects

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $175k

This role $255k

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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $134,725–$216,062 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $175k for comparable roles.

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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 3513 open roles on FindRole.

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Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects joins the team building a real-time platform that transforms multimodal data, including structured, image, and log data, into an intelligent, searchable foundation enriched by language and embedding models. You will design and operate massively scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines to process diverse sources while ensuring high reliability and performance. Key responsibilities include developing Kafka-based ingestion systems, creating robust dimensional data models using Parquet or ORC, and implementing data quality checks and governance standards. The role requires expertise in Spark, Scala, Java, Python, PySpark, and Flink, alongside experience with tools like Airflow, Beam, Iceberg, and Trino. You will work with technologies such as Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and BigTable while managing infrastructure involving Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services to support complex ML model inference in production environments.

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