
Sr. Software Engineer (Data Solutions), IS&T Ai & Data Platforms
Required skills
- enterprise level applications
- Cloud
- Snowflake
- Big Query
- Cloudera
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- SQL
Nice to have
- cloud-based applications
- large scale compute services
- database services
- APIs
- RESTful services
- ETL
Role summary
Apple's IS&T organization is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer (Data Solutions) to join the Ai & Data Platforms team. This role involves building high-quality, scalable, and resilient distributed systems on the cloud for data exploration, analytics, reporting, and production models. The engineer will design, build, test, and ship new components and features, working closely with internal customers to understand their needs and streamline their experience on the platform. The position requires in-depth knowledge of innovative technologies and cloud data platforms, with a focus on coding, designing, developing, tuning, and debugging applications. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in enterprise-level application development, cloud implementation with databases like Snowflake or BigQuery, and programming experience in Python, Scala, or Java, along with SQL expertise.
Description
We engineer high-quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems on cloud that power data exploration, analytics, reporting and production models. Our core systems are diverse and come with an unusual intersection of high data volumes with systems distributed across cloud and on-premise infrastructure. On our team you will build solutions that integrate open source software with Apple’s internal ecosystem. You will drive development of new components and features from concept to release: design, build, test, and ship at a regular cadence. You will work closely with internal customers to understand their requirements and workflows, and propose new features and ecosystem changes to streamline their experience of using the solutions on our platform. This is a hard-core software engineering role. A large part of an engineer's time is spent in writing code and designing/developing applications on cloud, with the remainder being spent on tuning and debugging codebase, supporting production applications and supporting our application end users. This role requires in-depth knowledge of innovative technologies and cloud data platform with the ability to independently learn new technologies and contribute to the success of various initiatives. We are looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join this amazing team. If you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
Minimum Qualifications
7 or more years of experience developing enterprise level applications Implementation experience on Cloud with databases like SnowFlake, Big Query or Cloudera Programming experience with Python, Scala or Java. Experience in developing with SQL Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience in designing and development of cloud-based applications that include large scale compute services, database services, APIs to design RESTful services, ETL, queues and notification services. Experience in Enterprise-ready Cloud Data-Warehousing platforms like Snowflake is highly valued Hands-on knowledge of Spark cluster-computing framework & Kubernetes or similar containerization technologies. Experience developing Big Data applications using Java, Spark, Kafka is a huge plus Understanding of fundamentals of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving Cloud technology experience on platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Data Visualization Tools: Proficient in data visualization, with experience in software such as Streamlit, Superset, Tableau, Business Objects, and Looker Data Insights and KPIs: Working experience on generating and visualizing data insights, metrics, and KPIs. Usage of basic ML models in the space of anomaly detection, forecasting, GenAI
Sample Apple interview questions
- 1
Design a typeahead box for a search engine
system designmedium - 2
Design a rate limiter
system designmedium - 3
Architect a key-value store for distributed systems.
system designmedium - 4
Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment
system designmedium - 5
What is an API and how does it work?
technicalmedium
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