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Sr. / Staff Software Engineer, Data Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform

Seattle, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-28

Core

Lead the design, build, and operation of Apple's largest exabyte-scale, multi-tenant, privacy-enabled Data Lakehouse infrastructure.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Builds

Fully managed Lakehouse solution powered by Apache Iceberg and Iceberg REST Catalog

Domain

Big Data Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Java, Scala, Apache Iceberg, Iceberg REST Catalog, API design, debugging large-scale systems

Preferred skills

Public cloud platforms (AWS, S3, IAM), Open-source contributions (Spark, Iceberg), Iceberg Rest Catalogs (Polaris, Graviton)

Responsibilities

Build and operate exabyte-scale data platform, Scale and operationalize multi-tenant Data Lakehouse, Ensure reliable high quality data with monitoring and incident response, Write code, documentation, participate in code reviews, Mentor other engineers

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with leadership

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