At Apple, iCloud and Apple Services Engineering (ASE) build and operate the platforms that power critical customer experiences across a globally distributed ecosystem.
iClouds FoundationDB team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead data protection systems for one of the most advanced distributed databases in production today. FoundationDB powers Apple's most critical cloud services, and this role is central to ensuring data durability, integrity, availability, and cost-efficient storage at massive scale. This role focuses on building and evolving FoundationDB's data protection capabilities, including fast backup and restore, change-data-capture, tiered storage systems, and client-facing APIs.
You will lead efforts to create highly available backup systems that can also serve as active replicas for online workloads, significantly improving availability and storage efficiency. This work sits at the intersection of database internals, storage engines, and distributed execution.Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for FoundationDB backup, restore, and data protection systems. Design and implement scalable, highly available backup and restore architectures. Drive development of tiered storage systems and CDC pipelines that support both recovery and online use. Ensure strong data integrity guarantees across transactional and replicated systems. Partner with core database, storage, and client teams to integrate data protection seamlessly into FoundationDB.
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