Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB

Apple • Cupertino, CA

16d

About The Position

Apple’s FoundationDB team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead data
protection systems for one of the most advanced distributed databases in
production today. FoundationDB powers Apple’s most critical cloud services, and
this role is central to ensuring data durability, integrity, availability, and
cost-efficient storage at massive scale.

DESCRIPTION

This role focuses on building and evolving FoundationDB’s data protection
capabilities, including fast backup and restore, change-data-capture, tiered
storage systems, and client-facing APIs. You will lead efforts to create highly
available backup systems that can also serve as active replicas for online
workloads, significantly improving availability and storage efficiency. This
work sits at the intersection of database internals, storage engines, and
distributed execution.

Requirements

• 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies.
• Experience with backup, restore, or replicated storage systems at scale.
• Experience directly supporting or owning online production systems or customer-deployed production systems.
• Solid understanding of transactional systems and data integrity principles.
• Experience working with RocksDB or similar storage engines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead complex technical initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or operating large-scale backup and recovery systems.
• Familiarity with change-data-capture and data replication pipelines.
• Experience with parallel task execution, scheduling, or distributed workflows.
• Background in database internals or storage engine development.
• Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed