Senior Software Engineer, Apple Services Engineering - Music Data Engineering

benefits of working in a fast growing business where you are encouraged to “Think Different” to solve very interesting technical challenges and where your efforts play a key role in the success of Apple’s business. You should be able to engineer innovative solutions while playing a hands-on development role to deliver products in a dynamic environment. Leadership is important for this position as you will be asked to provide technical guidance and best practices. You will have to interact with other groups on an ongoing basis on both technical and non-technical levels. Good verbal and written communication skills are important to this position. Significant experience in designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable data systems and services in Java and/or Scala Bachelors/equivalent, or greater, in Computer Science or related discipline Experience in Spark, Kafka and Web Services preferred (see below) Designing Java-based micro-services using best practices and open-source libraries including DropWizard, Sprint, Large-scale data processing technologies in particular Spark / Spark-SQL / Spark Streaming, Flink, Hadoop, Object-Stores, AWS Lambda or similar Building and running large-scale data pipelines, including distributed messaging such as Kafka, data ingest to/from multiple sources to feed batch and near-realtime/streaming compute components Knowledgable about distributed storage and network resources, at the level of hosts, clusters and DCs, to troubleshoot and prevent performance issues Experience with any low-latency NoSQL datastores, including Cassandra and S3 Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Maven, Gradle, Git and other related software lifecycle tools