Data powers Apple's software, services, and product development. Apple's Data Services Org provides a diverse range of data solutions, including SQL and NoSQL databases, search engines, and streaming platforms with GenAI capabilities. Apple’s Data Services team supports building data platforms for several large-scale data science applications. We work on many high-impact projects that serve various Apple lines of business. We use the latest in open source technology and as committers on some of these projects, we are pushing the envelope. Working with multiple lines of business, we manage many streams of Apple-scale data. We bring it all together and extract the insights & value. We do all this with an exceptional group of software engineers, data scientists, SRE/DevOps engineers, and managers. We are looking for a talented and dedicated senior big data engineer to join our team to bring passion for infrastructure and distributed systems to build world-class data platforms/products at a very large scale across multiple cloud environments running on S3, Kafka, Flink, Spark, LLMs and AI/ML!
Requirements
- Development and operational excellence through proper automation and engineering processes using programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or other JVM languages
- Solid experience and knowledge in any one of Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Apache Hbase, Presto, etc.
- 10+ years of experience in designing and managing large scale production grade deployments both in on-prem and in cloud (AWS or GCP).
- Experience with containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent.
- Strong proficiency with Helm and Kustomize for managing Kubernetes applications and configurations through GitOps practices
- Experience with configuration management or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Crossplane is desired.
- Proficient in working with Linux or other POSIX operating systems, shell scripting, and networking technologies.
Responsibilities
- Work with the best and brightest software engineers!
- Be ready to learn and explore cutting edge technologies in distributed computing and big data environments.
- Your have an automate anything approach to document for the benefit of others.
- Provide incident resolution for all technical production issues.
- Create and maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation reflecting configuration, and responsible for writing justifications, training users in complex topics, writing status reports, documenting procedures, and interacting with other Apple staff and management.
- Provide guidance to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of systems.
- Determine future needs for capacity and investigate new products and/or features.
Other
- You are an independent problem-solver who is self-directed and capable of exhibiting deftness to handle multiple simultaneous competing priorities and deliver solutions in a timely manner.
- Strong troubleshooting ability will be used daily; will take steps on their own to isolate issues and resolve root causes through investigative analysis in environments where the candidate has little knowledge/experience/documentation.
- Help mentor and coach junior members of the team in process and engineering design.
- Administer and ensure the proper execution of the backup systems.
- Provide 24x7 on-call support to handle urgent critical issues.
