Job Description
The people here at Apple dont just craft products - they build the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries! Its the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it! The Postgres team at Apple invites interested engineers to join our team to develop and contribute to PostgreSQL, the world's most popular open source relational database. Our engineers develop and operate Apple's cloud-based relational databases service hosting PostgreSQL databases that power some of Apple's most important workloads in Services, Manufacturing, AIML and many more. You will be joining a team of experts working on modern database technologies, distributed systems and storage engineering, helping push the limits of open-source PostgreSQL in order to offer enterprise-class performance, availability and durability to our customers, as well as to ensure reliable administration. Your work will be deployed at massive scale, serving millions of queries per second over many petabytes of data across our data-centers worldwide and impact the experiences of many millions of users of key Apple services.
AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) is IS&Ts engine for AI-powered innovation. The team brings together data, application development, and machine learning - including generative AI - along with data services and customer success functions, to help IS&T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple. The Apple Postgres team develops and operates a highly reliable, cloud relational databases service that serves all of Apple. We're looking for curious, enthusiastic and collaborative developers with an extraordinary degree of care and rigor in engineering who can contribute to all major components of PostgreSQL, including query execution, storage, replication, high-availability, scaling, administration, new feature development and all other aspects of the database.
Success in this role requires a high level of expertise in several of the following:
Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers, network interfaces) in server class systems
Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance)
Understanding of database concepts (relational algebra, query optimization, consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics)
Advanced concepts such as failure detection, load balancing, request pipelining and operational semantics of high-throughput systems
Performance engineering, understanding of advanced testing methodologies, familiarity with debugging and profiling toolsThe role also requires excellent communication and the ability to partner closely with our Database Engineering and SRE teams, and a high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal customer.
The ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations is also essential, as well as the ability to help mentor junior engineers.BS in Computer Science/related fields with 5+ years of relevant work experience
High level of proficiency in C, C++, Rust
Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing, coding in C, C++
Demonstrated experience developing database systems, storage engines, distributed systems
Experience developing software in open source communities
Knowledge of the internals of relational databases such as PostgreSQL (or MySQL, MariaDB)MS in Computer Science/related fields with 8+ years of relevant experience
Expertise with code performance and optimization
Expertise with Relational database systems architecture
Knowledge of Linux Kernel development
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1976 |
| Website | https://www.apple.com/jobs |
About Company
We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
About Apple
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.
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