Entry Level Platform Software Engineer Jobs

Summary

AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning — including generative AI — along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple. We are looking for a Software Engineer to help build next- generation of Applied Machine Learning Data Platforms. Applied Machine Learning Data Platform team provides platform engineering, data engineering tools, data pipelines, and services for various Machine Learning and Analyst teams. These help to train and deploy inference models, and run data analytics at scale to prevent Fraud and automate decisioning on multiple Apple Platforms like Apple Pay, Apple Media Products, App Store, Online Store, Retail, AppleCare and Manufacturing. Our team within the greater AiDP team is the Core Platform Engineering team which is a backbone of the platform, responsible for handling data at multi-petabyte scale with low latencies and high concurrency.

Description

We're looking for a Software Engineer with a strong data background and deep platform-thinking to design, build, and enhance a scalable, efficient data platform. You'll bring hands-on experience in data warehousing and analytics, and thrive on solving hard, large-scale data problems. If you're passionate about building production-grade platforms and want to make a lasting impact at scale, we'd love to talk to you.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 2+ years of subsequent data engineering experience across the required skills including data warehousing, big data and analytics domains
• Deep understanding and experience of working with high volume, high concurrency platforms
• Writing Spark, Trino or Snowflake, Flink code, Python and SQL for large scale relational data warehouses and data lake platforms on the cloud.
• Designing data pipelines for structured and semi-structured data.
• Iceberg or open table format experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of subsequent data engineering experience across the required skills including data warehousing, big data and analytics domains
• Building highly scalable data engineering platform components and foundational tools in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Deep experience working with AI models and tools such as Claude, building agents etc
• Experience with large scale platform migration projects
• Working with distributed frameworks including Apache Kafka and Apache Spark and Flink and knowledge of Cloud platforms and technologies

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 $150,400 and $225,300, 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 Apple’s 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 Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll 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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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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