Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB
At a glance
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As an Engineering Manager at Apple's iCloud and Apple Services Engineering (ASE), you will lead the FoundationDB team in developing advanced data protection systems for one of the world’s most sophisticated distributed databases. Your primary focus will be on building fast backup and restore capabilities, change-data-capture pipelines, and tiered storage solutions that enhance availability and efficiency while ensuring strong data integrity guarantees. You will manage a growing engineering team responsible for these critical systems, design scalable architectures, and collaborate with core database, storage, and client teams to integrate seamless data protection features. Essential skills include experience in distributed systems, storage technologies like RocksDB, and managing production-scale backup and recovery systems. This role demands expertise in balancing reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at massive scale within a highly dynamic and innovative environment.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead the development of scalable backup and restore architectures for FoundationDB.
- Design tiered storage systems and CDC pipelines to support recovery and online use.
- Ensure data integrity across transactional and replicated systems in FoundationDB.
- Improve performance and cost efficiency of large-scale backup storage systems.
- Set technical direction while maintaining high engineering quality and operational rigor.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies.
- Experience with backup, restore, and replicated storage systems at scale.
- Solid understanding of transactional systems and data integrity principles.
- Experience working with RocksDB or similar storage engines.
- Proven ability to design and implement scalable, highly available architectures.
Employer
About Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software
Apple Inc currently has 255 open roles on FindRole.
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