3 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and execution of large-scale offline indexing and near-real-time indexing systems.
- Architect and improve distributed systems that process petabytes of content and billions of documents and images.
- Drive scalability, reliability, cost, latency, and throughput improvements across indexing infrastructure.
- Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives and resolve cross-team dependencies.
- Collaborate with crawling, ranking, ML, retrieval, and infrastructure teams on long-term indexing strategy.
- Communicate strategy, risks, and resourcing to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Develop senior engineers into technical leadership roles.
Requirements
- Significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure.
- Engineering management experience leading software teams.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and storage.
- Experience with distributed batch processing and MapReduce-style models.
- A track record of leading multi-team technical initiatives and influencing without direct authority.
- Strong communication skills for technical topics with senior leadership.
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience with Spark, Beam, Flink, Kafka, Bigtable, HBase, or Cassandra.
- Preferred background in search, information retrieval, large-scale content processing, image processing, computer vision, or multimodal systems.
- Preferred experience optimizing distributed systems for cost, latency, and throughput and presenting strategy to executive leadership.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering
About Apple
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.