Description
Summary
Apple's AI & Data Platform (AiDP) Data Services organization is seeking a motivated Software Engineer, Data Analytics focused on providing data analytics and search services. Engineers on this team build data processing platforms and develop required tooling for Apple's most critical internet services at massive scale. In AiDP, your work will benefit hundreds of millions of users.
AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&T's engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning — including generative AI — along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.
Description
The AiDP Data Services Analytics team builds data analytics and search capabilities — provisioning, backup/restore, observability, and self-service — spanning OpenSearch, ClickHouse, SingleStore, Couchbase, Apache Doris, Apache Milvus, etc. This role involves supporting data processing and migration efforts across hybrid-cloud environments (On-Prem ↔ AWS ↔ AliCloud) following established Runbooks and adhering to local data residency and regulatory requirements (e.g., China's Cybersecurity Law and PIPL). This role requires good communication and collaboration with infrastructure teams and colleagues across a distributed team.
Key Responsibilities
Build and run data processing platforms with required monitoring, alerting, and incident management, achieving growing independence
Build working knowledge of data analytics and search concepts (distributed data processing, fast querying, consistency models) across OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Couchbase, Doris, Milvus, etc.
Support performance engineering efforts (profiling, tuning) under guidance from senior team members
Assist with service management across bare metal, virtualized (EC2, AliCloud ECS), and containerized (K8s) style platforms
Execute and support data migration tasks across hybrid clouds, including validation and rollback support
Build understanding of operating systems and datacenter architecture concepts relevant to transactional workloads
Produce and maintain clear documentation — Runbooks, architecture diagrams, and migration playbook updates
Support compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements applicable to China-based infrastructure
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years experience in data analytics and/or data search space
Experience and knowledge of Java or Python programming languages
Hands-on production experience with at least one of the following technologies: Solar, Elastic Search, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Doris and/or Couchbase
Exposure to running infrastructure with reliance on automation tooling, across Datacenter and Cloud architectures (including Alibaba Cloud and/or AWS)
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related work experience
Preferred Qualifications
Some operational experience with stateful services on Kubernetes
Exposure to database-as-a-service control planes, provisioning APIs, or self-service tooling
Experience assisting with cross-cloud / hybrid-cloud data migrations for transactional systems
Familiarity with observability concepts (SLIs/SLOs), backup, and DR practices for OLTP/distributed-SQL engines
Solid troubleshooting skills, a resourceful first-principles approach to problem solving, and good technical writing habits
Contributions to open-source database projects or internal data-platform tooling
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