Senior Data Engineer, Data Products
Core
Build, extend, and operate near-real-time and batch data pipelines at petabyte scale for Apple Ads, ensuring privacy, reliability, and efficiency.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (data products)
Builds
Petabyte-scale funnel and aggregate pipelines, privacy-preserving critical pipelines, and data products for Apple Services
Domain
Advertising / Media / Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed data processing, scalable pipeline design, data modeling, cloud/on-prem systems, AI coding agents, modern programming languages
Preferred skills
Streaming pipelines, event-driven ingestion, lakehouse table formats, open source contributions, mentoring
Technologies
Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Scala, Java, Python, Flink
Responsibilities
Engineer and operate secure, scalable data processing systems; deliver features, schema changes, and backfills; own design of pipeline components; use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation; contribute to on-call and incident response; mentor other engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
