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Apple Database Engineer, IS Data Services in Austin, Texas
Database Engineer, IS Data Services
Austin,Texas,United States
Software and Services
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. The people here at Apple don’t just build 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. Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, extraordinary ideas have a way of becoming industry leading products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Our engineers develop and operate Apple’s relational database 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 engineers working at the groundbreaking of modern database deployment architectures and running distributed systems at a very large scale. Developers on our team are responsible for ensuring that our database services are completely API-driven, reliable, efficient and resilient with a high degree of auto-remediation ensuring high availability and durability
Description
The team is responsible for developing highly reliable and API driven micro-services to maintain and run the lifecycle of PostgreSQL databases at Apple, while ensuring a high level of observability and adaptability for our customers. Maintaining and improving monitoring and alerting is equally important for the role. Understanding of core reliability concepts - observability, monitoring, alerting, fault tolerance, auto-remediation would help to be successful in the role. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Automation Development: Develop and maintain tools to streamline database management tasks and performance tuning. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Integrate database management tasks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated deployments. Monitoring and Alerting: Implement automated monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues within PostgreSQL databases with options for Self-Healing
Minimum Qualifications
Experience building highly available software services or platform infrastructure
Experience in designing, building, and maintaining API-driven service
Proficient in Python or Go
Relational database fundamental concepts
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building and interacting with Cloud APIs for AWS and GCP
Good understanding of PostgreSQL internals
Experience with Java/Kotlin/C/C++ will be an advantage
SRE experience supporting PaaS or DBaaS.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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