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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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• Some operational experience with stateful services on Kubernetes
• 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

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 $150,400 and $225,300, 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 Apple’s 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 Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• retirement benefits.
• a range of discounted products and free services.
• reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
• discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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