Software Development Engineer, Apple
Databases, AiDP
$207.8-378.7k
Plus 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
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Personal technology company
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$207.8-378.7k
Plus 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
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- We’re 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 database
- Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers, network interfaces) in server class systems
- Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance)
- Understanding of database concepts (relational algebra, query optimization, consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics)
- Advanced concepts such as failure detection, load balancing, request pipelining and operational semantics of high-throughput systems
- Performance engineering, understanding of advanced testing methodologies, familiarity with debugging and 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 customers
- The 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 experience
- Demonstrated experience developing database systems, storage engines, distributed systems
- High level of proficiency in C, C++, Rust
- Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing, coding in C, C++
- Experience developing software in open source communities
- Knowledge of the internals of relational databases such as PostgreSQL (or MySQL, MariaDB)
Desirable
- MS in Computer Science/related fields with 8+ years of relevant experience
- Expertise with code performance and optimization
- Expertise with Relational database systems architecture Knowledge of Linux Kernel development
What the job involves
- The Postgres team at Apple invites interested engineers to join our team to develop and contribute to PostgreSQL, the world’s most popular open source relational database
- Our engineers develop and operate Apple’s cloud-based relational databases service hosting PostgreSQL databases that power some of Apple’s 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
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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