Principal Data Engineering Lead, Services Special Project
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$214,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $170k 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 3497 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $174,149–$277,600 across 2702 roles with salary data.
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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.
What does a Data Engineer earn in California?
Median $187700 from 41 postings across 21 companies.
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