Software Engineer - Apple TV Data Platform Team
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. As a vital member of the Apple TV Data Platform team, your role as a Senior Software Engineer will drive the development of next-generation technologies that provide services to billions of users. Our products need to handle dynamic, timely information at a large scale. We're seeking engineers with fresh ideas spanning information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. You'll be working on critical projects that are integral to our fast-paced business growth and evolution. We value versatility, leadership skills, and passion to tackle new challenges across the full stack as we continue to push technology forward. Specifically, your focus will be on developing the software stack to handle large data for facilitating knowledge graph construction. If this sounds like your dream job, we want to speak with you!
The Apple TV Services team seeks a self-starting, energetic, back-end software engineer who is not afraid to question assumptions as they build large-scale, data-driven systems. Our team focuses on sophisticated services and tools that bridge the worlds of automation and human task management. The team powers services such as Apple TV+, Apple TV Channels and MLS. We are the back-end data team driving the video experience on products like the TV App on all of Apple's platforms - iOS, MacOS and tvOS. We are looking for someone with an excellent understanding of how to model data, design workflows, balance between synchronous and asynchronous processing. We're looking for an individual who loves a challenge, tackles problems with imaginative solutions, works well in collaborative teams, and can produce high-quality software under tight deadlines and constraints. You will join a hands-on software development team that champions creativity and generates novel solutions to deliver engineering perfection.
- 3+ years of experience in a professional software development position
- Passionate about sharing your in-depth knowledge and experience building applications
- Strong programming experience in Java Experience in relational and/or NoSQL database systems such as Oracle Database, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, etc.
- Ability to independently learn new technologies and value life-long learning
- Share our value of a collaborative team
- Share our belief in automation and tooling as a critical part of the software lifecycle
- BS in Computer Science or industry work equivalent
- Worked with message driven programming using Kafka or other messaging technologies
- Familiar with batch and large scale data analytics such as Apache Spark and related technologies
- Experience writing REST APIs
- Insights into caching technologies
- Experience with high throughput system infrastructure design and deployment is a plus.
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