Senior Software Data Engineer - App Store

Seattle,Washington,United States

Software and Services

Apples App Store is the worlds largest and most innovative app marketplace, home to over 1.5 million apps and serving more than half a billion customers every week across all the Apple devices. Since the App Store launched in 2008, it has changed how we all live; it has enabled countless new companies, spawned new industries, and built millions of jobs. But we believe we are just getting started. We are seeking a hands-on senior data engineer to join the App Store Analytics engineering team focused on Advertising solutions to help drive app discoverability. In this role, you will be part of an analytics team working with product, privacy, and multi-functional engineering teams to design and implement core privacy preserving services and data pipelines, that deliver on Apples app Store Ads roadmap goals.

**Description**

In this role, you will be part of a team that will collaboratively ideate to solve novel problems in the area of ads measurement. You will independently bring data driven technical solutions to the team. You will communicate the solution in a way that synthesizes user, product, and privacy impacts clearly. You will cut through ambiguity, understand end-to-end requirements, and propose engineering solutions that are privacy enhancing, scalable, and reliable. You will implement the designs to a scalable, high quality, and observable set of pipelines and services. You will lean into and pick up new technologies as driven by needs of the project. You will partner with program teams to plan and execute sprint goals. The ideal candidate will mentor engineers, share industry knowledge and contribute to building the teams knowledge and expertise. We are a collaborative, encouraging team embraces challenges and values humility, integrity and dedication to each others growth.

**Minimum Qualifications**

**Key Qualifications**

5 years of programming experience in Scala (preferred) or Java

Hands-on experience building distributed data processing applications using Spark or Flink, Kafka, Iceberg, Kubernetes & Cassandra or similar technologies

Deep understanding of SQL, data analysis and visualization to drive insights for product and engineering decisions

Proven record in design, implementation, and launching of complex, resilient, reliable, and scalable technical solutions

Understand the Data Lifecycle and concepts such as lineage, governance, privacy, retention, and anonymity

Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving multi-functional, and/or cross-business projects

Proven ability to communicate data driven designs clearly to diverse audiences including leadership updates

Demonstrated passion for understanding business context, customer focus, and product quality

Ability to own, drive, and handle ambiguity

Demonstrated ability to be a fast learner and collaborative problem solver

Experience in ads or related domain preferred

**Preferred Qualifications**

**Education & Experience**

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or a similar field. Master's preferred.

**Additional Requirements**

**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 $131,500 and $243,300, 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 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 (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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