Database Engineer, IS Data Services

Summary
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.

This team provides database solutions to Maps, Siri, Music, iCloud, App Store, Hardware, and Software Engineering. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norms here. We enable engineers to build phenomenal products!

Our engineers develop and manage Apple's cloud-based relational db service hosting PostgreSQL databases that power some of Apple's most important workloads in Services, Manufacturing, AIML and many more.

Key Qualifications
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Description
We are looking to hire extraordinary individuals to join the Global Data Services team to lead the Postgres database platform. In this role, you will help build and own the RDBMS platform that delivers Apple services to all of its customers worldwide and help us create the Apple experience on a global scale. The expectations of the job position would be:

- You will be responsible for the administration of production, QA, and development database infrastructure
- Data Services: Provide database architecture and design solutions.
- Database Infrastructure Setup, Configuration, upgrading/Patching, Monitoring and solving
- Build the automation scripts for database infrastructure
- Implementing standard methodologies for DR and Backups
- Measurement and optimization of system performance Capacity planning and forecast management
- Participate in new technology/feature evaluation, design, and development of highly scalable distributed databases
- Be able to do performance benchmarking between either two versions of the same database technology or two different database technologies
- Lead the databases deployed in Cloud Infrastructure including AWS and Kubernetes

Education & Experience
BS in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent experience

Additional Requirements

• AWS, GCP Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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