Software Development Engineer - Database (PostgreSQL)
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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.
- 8+ Years of relevant experience in IT Industry, with demonstrated experience in 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).
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix Internals, Systems/Application Design & Architecture.
- Knowledge of Linux Kernel development is a plus.
- Expertise with code performance and optimisation is highly preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, solid collaboration skills.