Apple

Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects

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21 days ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate massively scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured, image, and log data.
  • Create real-time data pipelines that produce a trusted, searchable foundation for downstream applications.
  • Develop dimensional data models and analytics-optimized schemas.
  • Build and maintain distributed processing, streaming, workflow orchestration, and data lake infrastructure.
  • Integrate ML model inference, LLMs, and embedding models into data enrichment and transformation pipelines.
  • Deploy, serve, and optimize LLMs and ML models in production inference runtimes and serving frameworks.
  • Tune batching, KV-cache, and GPU utilization for low-latency, high-throughput real-time inference.
  • Apply data governance, security, and privacy best practices.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree.
  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Proficiency in data modeling, especially dimensional modeling, and analytics/reporting schema design.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Cassandra, and Redis.
  • Strong experience with Apache Spark and parallel processing frameworks such as BigTable and Hadoop.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with Scala and Java.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Iceberg, Flink, Apache Airflow, and Beam.
  • Experience with AWS services such as S3, EMR, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, BigQuery, and Kinesis.
  • Experience with analytics frameworks including Trino, Presto, BigQuery, and Snowflake.
  • Hands-on experience with big data lake architectures, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, and Jenkins.
  • Experience with Python and PySpark.
  • Familiarity with graph databases such as TigerGraph.
  • Experience processing multimodal data and integrating LLM and embedding-model inference.
  • Experience deploying, serving, and optimizing production LLMs or ML models using ONNX Runtime, TensorRT/TensorRT-LLM, Triton, vLLM, TorchServe, or similar tools.
  • Knowledge of data governance, data security, and data privacy regulations.
  • Preferred experience with data versioning tools such as DVC and Delta Lake.
  • Preferred experience storing and serving embeddings with pgvector, Milvus, or FAISS.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache BeamApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerDVCGoogle BigQueryJavaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrestoPythonRedisScalaSnowflake

Categories

Data EngineeringML Engineering
Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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