Senior Software Engineer, App Store Data

Apple • Cupertino, CA

6d

About The Position

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming
extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring
passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could
accomplish! The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting
examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. We are
the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple
Books, Apple Sports and Apple Fitness. And we do it on a massive scale, meeting
Apple’s high standard for quality and excellence, to deliver a huge variety of
entertainment in over 50+ languages to more than 150 countries.

The App Store team powers the data backbone behind discovery, search, trust and
safety, developer insights, and experimentation across billions of daily user
interactions. We ingest, model, and activate high-volume event data in near real
time with uncompromising standards for privacy, reliability, and latency. As a
Senior Software Engineer, you will design and operate large-scale distributed
systems and build production-grade Generative AI applications that make App
Store signals useful, safe, and actionable for teams across the Apple.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building large-scale data systems.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Scala and Java.
• Hands-on expertise with distributed data systems such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Flink.
• Solid foundation in data storage and SQL : (S3/HDFS/Parquet), and lakehouse tables (Iceberg/Delta/Hudi).
• Solid systems fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, consistency, caching, and observability.
• Built and operated services with Docker/Kubernetes, automated CI/CD and low‑latency inference systems.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity shipping GenAI apps to production: embeddings, vector DBs, RAG, prompt orchestration.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to influence multi-functional partners and drive complex projects to completion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees