Software Development Engineer (Postgres), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

The people here at Apple dont just craft products - they build the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries! Its 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!u2028u2028The Postgres team at Apple invites interested engineers to join our team to develop and contribute to PostgreSQL the worlds most popular open source relational database. Our engineers develop and operate Apples cloud-based relational databases service hosting PostgreSQL databases that power some of Apples 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.u2028nnAI u0026 Data Platforms (AiDP) is ISu0026Ts 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 ISu0026T build solutions more efficiently and streamline the adoption and embedding of generative AI across Apple.

The Apple Postgres team develops and operates a highly reliable cloud relational databases service that serves all of Apple. Were 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 in this role requires a high level of expertise in several of the following:u2028 nn- Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers n network interfaces) in server class systemsnn- Operating systems concepts (process scheduling disk and network I/O performance)nn- Understanding of database concepts (relational algebra query optimization consistency models isolation n levels crash and recovery semantics)nn- Advanced concepts such as failure detection load balancing request pipelining and operational semantics of n high-throughput systemsnn- Performance engineering understanding of advanced testing methodologies familiarity with debugging and n profiling tools

The role also requires excellent communication and the ability to partner closely with our Database Engineering and SRE teams and a high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations is also essential as well as the ability to help mentor junior engineers.

BS in Computer Science/related fields with 5 years of relevant work experiencennHigh level of proficiency in C C RustnnAdvanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing coding in C CnnDemonstrated experience developing database systems storage engines distributed systemsnnExperience developing software in open source communitiesnnKnowledge of the internals of relational databases such as PostgreSQL (or MySQL MariaDB)

MS in Computer Science/related fields with 8 years of relevant experiencennExpertise with code performance and optimizationu2028nnExpertise with Relational database systems architecturennKnowledge of Linux Kernel development