About the Role
Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization as a Data Platform SRE. You will be responsible for developing and operating our big data platform using open source or other solutions to aid critical applications, such as analytics, reporting, and AI/ML apps. This includes working to optimize performance and cost, automate operations, and identifying and resolving production errors and issues to ensure the best data platform experience.
Responsibilities
- Developing and operating big data platforms
- Optimizing performance and cost
- Automating operations
- Identifying and resolving production errors and issues
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with large-scale big data platforms
- Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, Python, or Go
- Proven expertise in operating large-scale distributed data processing systems with a strong focus on Apache Spark
- Hands-on experience with table formats and data lake technologies such as Apache Iceberg
- Strong background in incident management, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization in complex production environments
- Proficient with cloud technologies such as AWS and GCP
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems and command-line tools for debugging and operational support
Skills
- Apache Spark
- Apache Iceberg
- AWS
- GCP
- Unix/Linux
- Command-line tools
- Kubernetes
- Airflow
- DBT
- Data modeling
- Data warehousing
- AI/ML stack
- GPUs
- MLFlow
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
About the Company
- Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them.
- IS&T supports 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processes billions of secure transactions, and keeps the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly.
- AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation, bringing together data, application development, and machine learning to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.
