The people here at Apple don't just craft products - they build the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries! It's 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&T's 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.
Description
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 tools
Minimum Qualifications
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)
Preferred Qualifications
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
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- Dice Id: 90733111
- Position Id: e4ae18ceb0ad55294470b6f99b2e22dc
- Posted 9 hours ago
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