DataServices Engineer - Apple Wallet, Payments & Commerce
Core
Architect, scale, and operate high-performance, highly available database systems (relational, NoSQL, streaming, search) powering Apple's financial systems at massive scale.
Role type
Senior IC DataServices Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Cloud and on-premises data platforms including relational, NoSQL, streaming, and search services
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed data platforms (Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis), AWS data services (Aurora, MSK, ElastiCache), Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane), Kubernetes, Python, Database internals (query optimization, cluster tuning), HA/DR strategies
Preferred skills
Observability frameworks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), AWS Managed Data Services via Crossplane, Financial data security/compliance, Platform migrations, Vector databases, AI-ready data infrastructure