Senior Software Engineer - ASE Data Platform

Apple • Seattle, WA

7d

About The Position

Do you love solving complex challenges? Are you an inventive self-starter who
takes pride in making ideas come to life on a global scale? Are you passionate
about developing data platforms using creative algorithms to process petabytes
of data with very low latency? If so, join the Apple Services Engineering Data
Platform team to design and build a scalable data platform services that is used
across Apple. As part of Apple Services Engineering, you will have a meaningful
role in designing, developing, and deploying high-performance systems that
handle billions of transactions daily. This enormous scale brings challenges
that require extraordinarily creative problem-solving. We are looking for
Engineers and Architects passionate about crafting data products. This role
requires deep understanding of developing products that are highly scalable,
highly available and fully fault tolerant.

DESCRIPTION

We are building and supporting critical infrastructural systems and frameworks
that provide and support services like structured and unstructured storage,
caching, queueing, searching, querying, and much more. We are looking for a
strong, enthusiastic developer to join as a member of this group. This person
will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over
the direction of many critical Apple internet services for years to come. You
are someone with ideas and a real passion for software delivered as a service to
improve reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. This engineer’s work will affect the
success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in data processing ecosystems
• Coding experience in Java/Scala/Go, preferably with critical, large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in designing and developing stateless APIs using HTTP and similar protocols to support service-oriented software distribution across multiple cloud environments
• Ability to design large-scale, complex applications with excellent run-time characteristics such as low latency, fault-tolerance, and availability
• Understands MPP Query Engines like Trino, Starrocks, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Experience with contribution to Open Source projects is a plus
• Experience with multiple public cloud infrastructure is a plus
• Experience in cluster management/orchestration software like Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Helm charts, Docker is a plus
• A learning attitude to continuously improve the self, team, and the organization
• Deeply concerned about excellence and quality
• Loves fast-paced environment and learning new technologies

What This Job Offers

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