Postgres Database Engineer, IS Data Services
Austin, Texas, United States
Software and Services
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This team provides database solutions to Maps, Siri, Music, iCloud, App Store, Hardware, and Software Engineering. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norms here. We enable engineers to build phenomenal products!
Our engineers develop and manage Apple’s cloud-based relational db service hosting PostgreSQL databases that power some of Apple’s most important workloads in Services, Manufacturing, AIML and many more.
Key Qualifications
- 3+ years supporting Postgres databases in high volume customer facing environment
- Strong experience in optimizing and performance tuning of Postgres, including drill-down analysis
- Hands-on experience in configuring and supporting replication
- Background in building large infrastructure supporting high volume of transactions in a critically important environment
- Extraordinary experience administering multi-terabyte databases
- Proficiency with SQL, Shell/Python/GO
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
- Thrive in a fast-paced, tight delivery timeline
- Ability to independently learn new technologies
- Must have experience in AWS (RDS/EC2)
- Out of the box thinking. Being able to think of multiple solutions to the same problem.
Description
We are looking to hire extraordinary individuals to join the Global Data Services team to lead the Postgres database platform. In this role, you will help build and own the RDBMS platform that delivers Apple services to all of its customers worldwide and help us create the Apple experience on a global scale. The expectations of the job position would be:
- You will be responsible for the administration of production, QA, and development database infrastructure
- Data Services: Provide database architecture and design solutions.
- Database Infrastructure Setup, Configuration, upgrading/Patching, Monitoring and solving
- Build the automation scripts for database infrastructure
- Implementing standard methodologies for DR and Backups
- Measurement and optimization of system performance Capacity planning and forecast management
- Participate in new technology/feature evaluation, design, and development of highly scalable distributed databases
- Be able to do performance benchmarking between either two versions of the same database technology or two different database technologies
- Lead the databases deployed in Cloud Infrastructure including AWS and Kubernetes
Education & Experience
BS in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements
- AWS, GCP Certified Solutions Architect - Associate