Apple is looking to hire engineers to develop and contribute to PostgreSQL, the world's most popular open-source relational database. The team develops and operates 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. The goal is to push the limits of open-source PostgreSQL to offer enterprise-class performance, availability and durability, and ensure reliable administration. The work will be deployed at massive scale, serving millions of queries per second over many petabytes of data across data-centers worldwide and impact the experiences of millions of users of key Apple services.
Requirements
- 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
- High level of proficiency in C, C++, Rust
- Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing, coding in C, C++
Responsibilities
- develop and contribute to PostgreSQL
- develop and operate Apple’s cloud-based relational databases service hosting PostgreSQL databases
- develop and operate a highly reliable, cloud relational databases service that serves all of Apple
- 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
- push the limits of open-source PostgreSQL in order to offer enterprise-class performance, availability and durability to our customers
- 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
Other
- excellent communication
- the ability to partner closely with our Database Engineering and SRE teams
- a high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal customers
- The ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations is also essential
- the ability to help mentor junior engineers
