Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
ASE, Apple, Apple iCloud, Application Programming Interface (API), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cloud Computing, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Data Collection, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Recovery, Database Replication, Distributed Computing, Distributed Databases, Ecosystems, Engineering Management, High Availability, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Large-Scale Systems, Leadership, People Management, Performance Management, Problem Solving Skills, Production Costing, Production Systems, Quality Management, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Team Lead/Manager
LOCATION
Cupertino, CA
POSTED
18 days ago

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.

  • Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of large-scale backup storage systems.
  • Set technical direction while maintaining high engineering quality and operational rigor.3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams. Strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies. Experience with backup, restore, or replicated storage systems at scale. Experience directly supporting or owning online production systems or customer-deployed production systems. Solid understanding of transactional systems and data integrity principles. Experience working with RocksDB or similar storage engines. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead complex technical initiatives.Experience designing or operating large-scale backup and recovery systems. Familiarity with change-data-capture and data replication pipelines. Experience with parallel task execution, scheduling, or distributed workflows. Background in database internals or storage engine development. Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.

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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs