Software Engineer - Athena Synapse, IS&T Ai & Data Platforms
Core
Building scalable data services and platforms for machine learning analytics to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse across Apple.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Data & ML Platforms)
Builds
Resilient, low-latency services for real-time inference, streaming data, and automated pipelines for training and online serving.
Domain
Financial risk management / Fraud prevention / Data engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Java, Python, Scala, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, large-scale data pipeline design, systems thinking, CI/CD, observability, performance optimization, model health monitoring, drift detection
Preferred skills
ML/AI platforms, feature engineering, model training, GenAI workflows, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, Alibaba Cloud, mentoring
Technologies
Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, Alibaba Cloud
Responsibilities
Turn business and ML requirements into scalable platform and decisioning systems; Build resilient, low-latency services for real-time inference and streaming data; Define gold-standard CI/CD, observability, and SLA practices for Data and ML; Ship automated pipelines powering features, training, and online serving; Drive performance and cost optimizations across Data and ML workloads; Own data and model health with monitoring, validation, and drift detection.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
