Analytics Data Engineer - App Store

Apple’s App Store is the world’s largest and most innovative app marketplace, home to over 1.8 million apps and serving more than half a billion customers every week across all the Apple devices. Since the App Store launched in 2008, it has changed how we all live; it has enabled countless new companies, spawned new industries, and built millions of jobs. In a world where apps have become essential in people’s daily lives, the App Store team has become crucial to Apple’s business. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values, and fostering such values across the developer community. We keep innovating privacy technologies and lead the world into a safer future where you control what data is collected about you. Although the App Store is a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, forward-thinking, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here. In this role, you will help deliver a phenomenal experience and improve the store for both users and developers by generating insights from data in a privacy-friendly manner.

Description

We’re seeking a data engineer & analyst to join the App Store Data team. In this position you will:

1. Work in a highly cross-functional team.
2. Design next big things in collaboration with a variety of internal stakeholders and leadership team.
3. Explore existing data products and understand their semantics, features, and limitations.
4. Design new data products and write functional specs.
5. Share your ideas, feedback, analysis, and insights.
6. Document data contracts with internal partners and evolve them when needed.
7. Write clean, efficient, scalable data pipelines that process hundreds of terabytes.
8. Review team members’ code in an efficient and constructive way.
9. Care about your data product as much as about your code.
10. Work with internal partners to certify new feature implementations.
11. Release changes to production.
12. Work with SRE teams on troubleshooting.
13. Adhere to various policies, standards, and practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in ad-hoc data analysis.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Scala, Java, or Python.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL.
• Experience working with Jupyter Notebooks or similar products.
• Experience working with dashboard solutions: Tableau, PowerBI, AWS QuickSight or similar products.
• BS or MS in a technical field: Math, Statistics, Analytics, Computer Science, Business, or similar areas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and ability to present new ideas to stakeholders and leadership team at various levels.
• Good understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals including algorithms and data structures.
• Good knowledge of Spark is preferred.

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 $113,400 and $215,300, 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 Inc.’s discretionary employee stock programs. Employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit award recommendations and can purchase Apple Inc. stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple Inc.’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Participation in Apple Inc.’s discretionary stock programs is governed by Apple Inc.’s stock plans and agreements and are not part of local employment contracts or compensation.

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 and compensation programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.