Apple
DataServices Engineer - Apple Wallet, Payments & Commerce
Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cary, North Carolina - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience operating and scaling distributed data platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architects, scales, and operates highly available data platforms supporting Apple’s financial systems across cloud and on-premises environments.
What you'll do
- Design and operate relational, NoSQL, streaming, and search data platforms.
- Lead infrastructure automation and reliability initiatives, including high availability, disaster recovery, and migrations.
- Collaborate with application and engineering teams on critical production systems.
What they ask for
- 5+ years operating and scaling distributed data platforms in large-scale production environments.
- Experience with Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Redis; AWS data services; infrastructure as code; Kubernetes; and Python.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects independently and collaborate across engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry observability frameworks.
- Familiarity with financial data security and compliance, platform migrations, or vector databases and AI-ready data infrastructure.
Tools
Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
AI focus
Exposure to emerging technologies including vector databases or AI-ready data infrastructure is preferred; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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