Senior Data Engineer, Services Special Projects

Apple Inc

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On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
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$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer, Services Special Projects

The Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects joins the team building a massive, real-time platform that transforms multimodal data, including structured, image, and log data, into an intelligent, searchable foundation. This role involves designing and operating scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines to enrich data with language and embedding models for downstream applications like analytics and billing. Key responsibilities include building Kafka-based ingestion pipelines, developing dimensional data models using Parquet or ORC, and enforcing data quality standards. The position requires proficiency in Scala, Java, Python, and PySpark, alongside experience with Apache Spark, Flink, Airflow, and Beam. Candidates must also possess expertise in SQL/NoSQL databases, AWS services, Docker, Kubernetes, and deploying ML models using ONNX Runtime or Triton.

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What you'll do

  • Build and implement batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines to process multimodal data from diverse sources.
  • Develop and maintain Kafka-based ingestion and processing pipelines for reliable data delivery into the data lake.
  • Create robust logical and physical data models optimized for dimensional modeling, versioning, and storage.
  • Define and enforce data quality checks, SLAs, and observability standards to ensure data accuracy and trust.
  • Integrate raw signals with metadata and attribution to power downstream analytics, billing, and optimization use cases.
  • Implement methodologies for data lineage, metadata management, schema governance, and security standards.
  • Deliver solutions featuring logging, anomaly detection, data validation, and automated cleaning for continuous improvement.
  • Deploy and optimize LLMs or ML models directly in production inference runtimes for real-time data enrichment.

What we're looking for

  • 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 SQL/NoSQL databases including Postgres, Cassandra, and Redis.
  • Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks including Apache Spark and parallel processing frameworks like BigTable/Hadoop.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proven experience with Scala and Java.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Iceberg, Flink, and workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow and Beam.
  • Experience with AWS services, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), CI/CD tooling, and Python/PySpark.
  • Masters Degree.

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