January 30, 2025

Engineering Director - Apple Data Platform Lakehouse

Senior • On-site

$293,300 - $468,500/yr

Cupertino, CA

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200588424
Apple Data Platform is a foundational building block for Apple’s Services, Software, and AI/ML ecosystem, providing advanced data governance, compliance, and management at scale. It delivers a robust suite of capabilities, including batch and real-time data processing, embeddings management, feature stores, lakehouse, data virtualization, and inference as a service. These tools empower Analytics and AI workflows across Apple’s ecosystem, enabling seamless integration and innovation across products and services. Leveraging open source technologies such as Ray, Spark, Flink, and Iceberg across multi-cloud and on-premises environments, the Apple Data Platform enables transformative, data-driven intelligence that continuously helps Apple redefine the customer experience. In this Director role, you will define and drive our mission of delivering cutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, and interaction, enabling teams to easily and effectively build data-intensive applications.

Description

The leader in this role is responsible for driving the overall strategy and execution of our Lakehouse Platform. This includes driving the continuous enhancements of the lakehouse architecture to ensure high satisfaction of our internal platform users. This role will lead and mentor a large team of engineering and data science professionals, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities, and cultivating a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the team. The ideal candidate for this role will also demonstrate strong collaboration skills, partnering with stakeholders on defining SLAs, KPIs and usage guidelines to deliver a highly available and reliable platform. You’ll be responsible for building and leveraging cutting edge open source technologies to meet the diverse data management needs of many teams within Apple. This leader will have a strong track record in managing organizational budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources for projects and initiatives. Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and internal compliance policies for data management is also required.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software development experience, with 10+ years engineering team management experience
  • 5+ years of experience building and operationalizing data platform technologies like Spark, Flink, Hive, Iceberg
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related field of study

Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with program managers and engineering partners
  • Experience in influencing and driving key product innovations and opportunities across diverse stakeholders
  • Experience with open source development
  • Experience with Kubernetes, security, and data privacy

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 $293,300 and $468,500, 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. You’ll 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 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.

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.