Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Apple Inc

Cary, NC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Apple, Big Data, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Management, Data Science, Distributed Computing, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Public Cloud, Requirements Validation/Verification, Software Development, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telemetry, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Cary, NC
POSTED
30+ days ago

Are you ready to embrace massive scale? Undaunted ingesting petabytes of raw data each day from more than a billion customer devices?

Apple's Data Analytics team is looking for a motivated and driven distributed systems engineer to work on our device telemetry platform. We need a talented software developer to join our tight-knit cross-functional engineering team, building services and applications to parse, persist, and understand how Apple customers use their devices.

We collect, analyze, and produce insights from diagnostic and usage data from Apple devices. Our data is used to improve products and services and inform the overall direction of Apple platforms.

Our engineering responsibility spans device, data collection, compute, and query and visualization interfaces. As part of the Data Analytics team, you will similarly work cross-functionally to design, build, and iterate on our stream processing and ingestion pipeline.

Collaborating with data scientists and engineers across Apple, you will capture and refine requirements, validate design decisions, and implement. This role has high visibility and impact within the Apple Software Engineering organization.

BS degree in Computer Science, equivalent field or equivalent work experience

5+ years SW development experience

Have worked on large distributed systems, ideally on a public cloud platform like AWS

Extensive experience with container-based orchestration (Kubernetes, EC2, Mesos, etc.)

Practical knowledge of queue/stream consumers like Flink or Kinesis

Exposure to profiling and optimization of scale compute and data pipelines

Unwavering commitment to CI/CD

Comfortable and adaptable in a dynamic/informal environment with shifting priorities

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Self-motivated and dedicated with creative and critical thinking capabilities

Big data query engine production experience (Presto/Trino/Athena, etc.)

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs