Sr. Data Engineer, iCloud

Sr. Data Engineer, iCloud

Austin, Texas, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted : Sep 17, 2025

Weekly Hours : 40

Role Number : 200620742-0157

Would you like to drive the future of Apple’s products, applications, and platform while having the unique opportunity to impact some of the most far-reaching software applications in the world? iCloud Data organization enables Apple to ship better products for iCloud users to access all their content across apps (Photos, Mail, Messages, FaceTime, Calendar etc) from all of their devices all the time by providing consistent, scalable, timely, accurate, complete and fully integrated data infrastructure and capabilities to accurately surface relevant information If this excites you and you are energized by solving hard, high-leverage problems at scale, we'd love to hear from you!

Description

We’re looking for exceptional data engineers who have a strong background in distributed data processing, have great and demonstrable data intuition, and share our passion for continuously improving the ways we use data to make the Apple’s products, applications, and platform better.

Join a stunning team of data experts with diverse skill set, and deliver excellent solutions that better enable our decision-making process

Responsibilities

What you will do :

Engineer efficient, adaptable and scalable data pipelines to process structured and unstructured data

Own and evolve extremely rich datasets on iCloud products and platform interactions to power a wide variety of use cases

Build forward-looking data solutions that interface well with existing systems and use judgement to bring cutting edge technologies in the industry to suit iCloud needs

Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver / aid data frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes by partnering with cross functional teams

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience working with Spark and other distributed data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Presto, Flink, Druid) for building efficient & large scale data pipelines

Highly proficient in at least one of Java, Python or Scala

Deep expertise in Data Principles, Data Architecture & Data Modeling, Strong SQL skills

Strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail, capable of taking on loosely defined problems

Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and / or cross-business projects

Strong communication and collaboration skills & ability to lead high-level discussions on technology strategy and approach

Conceptually familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, RDS etc)

MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Data Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud

Experience with building stream-processing applications using Apache Flink, Spark-Streaming, Apache Storm, Kafka Streams or others

Experience with Search systems (such as ElasticSearch, Solr), NoSQL datastores (such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB)

Experience building distributed, high-volume data services is a plus

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