Job Details

Role Number: 200632914-3577

Summary

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we could accomplish. The FoundationDB team is seeking highly skilled and committed developers to join and contribute to the development of the system, enabling it to achieve unprecedented heights. This role entails substantial individual responsibility and influence over the backend, which will power numerous critical Apple services for years to come.

Description

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a deep passion for system software that prioritizes correctness, efficiency, and simplicity. FoundationDB boasts a specialized simulation testing framework designed to ensure the correctness of its systems. In addition to simulation testing, the role involves design and implementation of distributed database systems, performance optimizations, production rollout and monitoring, incident triage and mitigation. This work will have a profound impact on hundreds of millions of users and is crucial to the success of some of the most prominent current and future Apple features.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or an equivalent engineering-related field.

• Knowledge of operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and storage systems.

• Experience developing software in C or C++.

• Proficiency in optimizing CPU usage, memory allocation, profiling, I/O throughput and latency tuning.

• Solid understanding of OS fundamentals (processes, threading, virtual memory, scheduling, concurrency primitives).

• Experience with concurrency and multi-threading.

• Solid understanding of some or all of the following database and distributed systems concepts: consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos), distributed caching, failure recovery, database consistency models, fault tolerance, data replication, and load balancing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Past project experience on transaction systems, storage systems, or distributed systems.

• Experience in benchmarking distributed systems and resolving performance challenges for production-level systems.

• Strong communication skills, enabling the ability to establish rapport with diverse stakeholders.

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