Sr. / Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer for Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform

Job Summary

Summary Posted: Jun 23, 2025 Role Number: 200606943 The Apple Data Platform team, part of the Services organization, powers analytics and machine learning across Apple. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, and interaction, enabling teams to build data-intensive applications with ease and success.This role sits within the Data Lakehouse team, a part of the Apple Data Platform. The team provides a fully managed Lakehouse solution powered by Apache Iceberg, Iceberg REST Catalog, and custom-built services to manage data at scale. Our platform supports both analytical and machine learning workloads across Apple, serving key products and organizations including Siri, Search, Media, iCloud, News, Apple Intelligence, and Maps. We continuously innovate to meet evolving customer needs and market trends.We seek engineers passionate about building world-class infrastructure products. In this role, you will lead the data lakehouse team, guiding team members in both technical and professional growth. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to lead the planning, execution, and success of technical projects, with a focus on enhancing the experience for Apples internal customers.

Description

Description The ideal candidate will have outstanding communication skills, proven data infrastructure/platform design and implementation capabilities, strong business acumen, and an innate drive to deliver results. He/she will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Responsibilities will include* Build and operate Apples largest data plarform supporting exabyte scale.* Scale and operationalize the largest custom build multi-tenant, highly secure, privacy enabled Data Lakehouse.* Ensure data platform offers reliable high quality data with consistent SLAs with good monitoring, alerting and incident response and continual investment to reduce tech-debt Write code, documentation, participate in code reviews, and mentor other engineers

Additional Information

Pay & Benefits At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 and $312,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apples discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apples Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Youll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

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