Sr. / Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer for Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform

Apple • Cupertino, CA

74d

About The Position

The Apple Data Platform team, part of the Services organization, powers analytics and machine learning across Apple. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, and interaction, enabling teams to build data-intensive applications with ease and success. This role sits within the Data Lakehouse team, a part of the Apple Data Platform. The team provides a fully managed Lakehouse solution powered by Apache Iceberg, Iceberg REST Catalog, and custom-built services to manage data at scale. Our platform supports both analytical and machine learning workloads across Apple, serving key products and organizations including Siri, Search, Media, iCloud, News, Apple Intelligence, and Maps. We continuously innovate to meet evolving customer needs and market trends.

Requirements

• Expertise in public cloud platforms like AWS, S3, EKS, IAM.
• Experience as a contributor to open source technologies like Spark or Iceberg.
• Expertise in building Lakehouse for large scale data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Apple's largest data platform supporting exabyte scale.
• Scale and operationalize the largest custom build multi-tenant, highly secure, privacy enabled Data Lakehouse.
• Ensure data platform offers reliable high quality data with consistent SLAs with good monitoring, alerting and incident response and continual investment to reduce tech-debt.
• Write code, documentation, participate in code reviews, and mentor other engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees