Apple is seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead our Integration Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible leading the team that enables Apache Cassandra to work seamlessly with platform infrastructure across all of Apple.
Requirements
- Experience developing or leading work in distributed systems engineering.
- Experience developing open source software and interacting with OSS communities.
- Experience leading control plane services for running data plane infrastructure.
- Experience running or developing critical internet services / platform infrastructure.
- Understanding of distributed systems and database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics).
- Advanced concepts such as failure detection, smart clients, load balancing, request pipelining, speculation / retry policies, and operational semantics of high-performance distributed systems.
- Performance engineering (design concepts, profile-guided optimization).
Responsibilities
- lead, develop, and grow a team responsible for Cassandra’s integration with platform technologies across Apple.
- Change Data Capture and Event Streaming
- Apache Spark read/write integration
- bulk dataset replication and distribution
- authentication technologies
- control plane services that orchestrate interaction between these systems.
Other
- This role also requires excellent communication, ability to partner with our Site Reliability peers, and a high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal platform customers.
- Ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations is also essential; experience in this area is a plus.
- Prior experience with development of distributed databases / storage systems is recommended
- Ability to rapidly build credibility with engineers, customers, and partners and quickly learn new technical domains.
- Comfort working with geographically distributed partners.
