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Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB

Cupertino, CA, US • Posted 60+ days ago • Updated 3 hours ago

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Skills

Cloud Computing
Data Security
Backup & Restore
Customer Facing
People Management
Software Engineering
Data Storage
Online Production
Data Integrity
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Backup
Recovery
Change Data Capture
Replication
Scheduling
Workflow
Database
Storage

Summary

At Apple, iCloud and Apple Services Engineering (ASE) build and operate the platforms that power critical customer experiences across a globally distributed ecosystem.

iCloud's 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.

Description

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.

Minimum Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

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