Software Engineer (Transactional), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Apples AI u0026 Data Platform (AiDP) Data Services organization is seeking a motivated database systems engineer to join our Data Services SRE team focused on our transactional database fleet. Engineers on this team develop and contribute to platform tooling that manages relational and distributed-SQL/document engines powering some of Apples most critical internet services at massive AiDP your work will benefit hundreds of millions of users. nnAI 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 AiDP Data Services SRE team builds engine-agnostic platform capabilities provisioning backup/restore observability and self-service spanning Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB and CockroachDB. This role involves supporting data migration efforts across hybrid-cloud environments with minimal downtime and guaranteed data integrity following established runbooks and adhering to local data residency and regulatory requirements. This role requires good communication and collaboration with Core Storage teams and colleagues across a distributed team.

Apply core SRE concepts monitoring alerting and incident management with growing independencennBuild working knowledge of transactional database concepts (consistency models isolation levels crash and recovery semantics) across Oracle PostgreSQL and MongoDBnnSupport performance engineering efforts (profiling tuning) across transactional engines under guidance from senior team membersnnAssist with service management across bare metal virtualized (EC2 Ali Cloud ECS) and containerized (K8s) style platformsnnExecute and support data migration tasks across hybrid clouds including validation and rollback supportnBuild understanding of operating systems and datacenter architecture concepts relevant to transactional workloadsnnProduce and maintain clear documentation runbooks architecture diagrams and migration playbook updatesnSupport compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements applicable to China-based infrastructure

3 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering / Infrastructure focused rolennHands-on production experience with at least one of Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB including exposure to On Call and Incident ManagementnnExposure to running infrastructure with reliance on automation tooling across Datacenter and Cloud architectures (third party cloud)nnGood understanding in one or more of the following programming languages: Python or GonnBS or MS in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience

Some operational experience with stateful services on KubernetesnnSolid troubleshooting skills a resourceful first-principles approach to problem solving and good technical writing habitsnnExposure to database-as-a-service control planes provisioning APIs or self-service toolingnnExperience assisting with cross-cloud / hybrid-cloud data migrations for transactional systemsnnFamiliarity with observability concepts (SLIs/SLOs) backup and DR practices for OLTP/distributed-SQL enginesnnSolid troubleshooting skills a resourceful first-principles approach to problem solving and good technical writing habits