About

• We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help develop the
• next-generation of Apple’s cloud services infrastructure. You will be working on
• FoundationDB Record Layer, Apple’s open source relational database, which is
• built on top of the FoundationDB key-value store and powers CloudKit. CloudKit
• is a foundational privacy-focused platform, which securely stores users’ data
• and seamlessly keeps it synchronized across all their Apple devices. CloudKit
• manages data at a massive scale! It is a strongly-consistent database of
• structured data that serves billions of active Apple customers. Considered the
• bedrock of iCloud, it is purpose built to be performant, highly available, and
• extremely scalable. CloudKit is a framework designed to the highest standards of
• user privacy that not only empowers developers to build highly collaborative and
• secure applications, but it is also the storage foundation for Apple’s signature
• cloud experiences, such as Photos, Drive, Notes, Keynote, News, and many third
• party applications! We are a world-class team who has a real passion for
• engineering and delivering high quality services to Apple’s customers. As a key
• member of a versatile organization, you will introduce new fundamental
• capabilities that will help power entirely new applications and scale existing
• ones.

• DESCRIPTION

• We are looking for engineers with a passion for developing world class, highly
• scalable, and resilient database systems with a particular focus towards
• ensuring quality, performance, and correctness. Particular areas of focus
• involve transaction and concurrency management, query language, planning and
• optimisation as well the design and development of custom storage, indexing, and
• search structures. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can
• excel in a complex environment that obsesses about the customer experience. As a
• software engineer in FoundationDB, you will: * Design, develop, and support a
• extremely multi-tenant relational database * Partner with teams across Apple to
• develop and ship new customer-facing features * Drive end-to-end project
• execution, from design reviews and through production releases * Deploy, scale,
• and maintain highly concurrent and throughput intensive services * Triage,
• investigate, and remediate production and operational issues

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent
• degree. Experience developing software in Java, C, or C++ Experience working
• with distributed NoSQL or relational database technologies Extensive experience
• with debugging and profiling. Expertise in programming in concurrent and
• multi-threaded environments Industry experience building and operating
• large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems

• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, and query planning and
• execution. Strong fundamentals in storage systems, e.g., schema design, indexes,
• and transactions Familiar with high-performance caching mechanisms, e.g., Redis
• or Memcached