Job Details

Software Development Engineer - Applications

Elk Grove, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: May 22, 2025

Role Number: 200604038

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Elk Grove, California. Provide database support for our on-premise and cloud hosted singlestore clusters, work on complex technical issues and resolving critical outages. Develop automation platform to manage infrastructure rollouts across cloud providers. Partner with engineering team to optimize performance of services for cloud architecture. Understand and help to improve complex SQL behavior to diagnose bugs or improve performance. Design and develop new systems to enhance database performance with good throughput and low latency. Ensure data consistency and durability with breakthrough performance and scalability. Dive into the internals of our query optimizer to improve the query performance and optimize resource utilization. Keep up to date on the ways statistical information is collected on tables and used in our cost based query optimizer. Reproduce query performance problems across various that are making your job easier on-premise and cloud platforms to understand the whole scope of an issue, even parts that are Linux or systems related. Discover how even small changes in query text can achieve 10x performance gains. Identify and reproduce product issues and submit support tickets or feature requests to singlestore support. Collaborate with development teams, technical project managers to keep all teams up to date with current issues a team may be facing. Work to streamline and improve various Engineering processes and tools, write documents and run-books, and help the team continually improve efficiency and effectiveness. Lead innovation for technical components, systems, and features. Automate and test own code to improve overall software quality that are making the job easier. Optimize telemetry platform to identify impacting events while providing relevant data to drive debugging. Manage his project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards. Debug Cluster events and conduct follow up post mortem and RCA analysis. Actively participate in technical POCs to optimize database experience and adoption. Participate in a SLA-driven on-call rotation, which will include after-hours, weekend, and rotating holiday participation. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $171,018 - $237,500/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.

• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:

• Python

• Unix Administration

• Shell Scripting

• Oracle

• MySQL

• PL-SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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