Senior / Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer for Lakehouse, Apple Data Platform

The Apple Data Platform team, part of the Services organization, powers analytics and machine learning across Apple. The mission is to deliver cutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, and interaction. This role is within the Data Lakehouse team, which provides a managed Lakehouse solution powered by Apache Iceberg, Iceberg REST Catalog, and custom services for data at scale. The platform supports analytical and machine learning workloads across key products and organizations. Engineers will lead the data lakehouse team, guide team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the experience for internal customers. Responsibilities include building and operating Apple's largest data platform supporting exabyte scale, scaling and operationalizing a custom multi-tenant, secure, privacy-enabled Data Lakehouse, ensuring reliable data with consistent SLAs, good monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reducing tech-debt. This includes writing code, documentation, participating in code reviews, and mentoring.