Apple
Sr. Data Engineer - Services Special Projects
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in data engineering.
- Education
- Master’s degree
About the job
Build and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines that transform multimodal data into a trusted, searchable foundation and enrich it for downstream applications.
What you'll do
- Build reliable, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and Kafka-based ingestion and processing.
- Design data models and implement data quality, observability, lineage, metadata, and governance standards.
- Integrate metadata and ML model inference to enrich data for analytics and operational use cases.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree.
- 10+ years of data engineering experience, including building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Experience with data modeling, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed processing, and parallel processing frameworks.
- Experience with Scala, Java, Apache Kafka, Iceberg, Flink, workflow orchestration, cloud services, and production ML inference.
Nice to have
- Experience with DVC or Delta Lake.
- Experience storing or serving embeddings, such as pgvector, Milvus, or FAISS.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Apache Spark, BigTable/Hadoop, Scala, Java, Apache Kafka
AI focus
Integrate language and embedding models, including LLMs, into multimodal data pipelines for enrichment and transformation; deploy, serve, and optimize production ML inference.
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