FoundationDB SRE Manager

Apple • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of
Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people
who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books.
And they do it on an extensive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with
dedication to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to
more than 150 countries. iCloud is seeking experienced database systems
engineering managers to join our SRE organization. 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. You will be joining a team of experts, working at the cutting edge of
modern database deployment architectures and distributed systems. The team's
work is deployed at massive scale, serving millions of queries per second over
hundreds of petabytes of data across our data-centers worldwide. It also has big
impact, forming the platform upon which iCloud and many other internet services
at Apple are built. In ASE, your work will benefit hundreds of millions of users
and is critical to the success of some of the most visible current and future
Apple features. We're looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join
this amazing team. You will be an accomplished builder and leader of teams
looking to tackle your next challenge. You know SRE and you know what it will
take to run databases at Apple scale with a high degree of operational
perfection. This role will position you to help shape the future of how we build
and run our iCloud services on a global scale. You will have the technical
skills to go deep and retain the ability to focus on higher-level business and
product goals. We hire high quality leaders and engineers with a diverse set of
experiences and skill sets for positions on Apple. Our customers count on us to
provide extraordinary availability, scalability, and security for services. If
you’d like to positively influence millions of customers’ experience of Apple
this is the job for you.

The FoundationDB SRE team develops applications and tooling that are safe,
reliable, scalable, and fast. This work requires an innovative spirit and an
extraordinary degree of care and rigor in engineering. Team members contribute
to all major components of FoundationDB deployment infrastructure, including
maintenance automation, backup service application, monitoring and alerting
tooling/dashboards, deployment architecture, as well as contributing back to the
upstream patches to the database focused on stability, performance, and scaling.
As a leader in this organization, you will manage, develop, and grow a team
responsible for FoundationDB’s scalability and performance across Apple. You
will also be responsible for helping grow the iCloud service organization
responsible for CloudKit and Content. We are seeking a hands-on manager with
domain experience who is comfortable working in the details.

Requirements

• Experience managing or developing critical internet services / platform infrastructure.
• Understanding of distributed systems and database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics).
• Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers, network interfaces, CPU and memory layout in server-class systems).
• Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance).
• Datacenter architecture (networking topologies, host placement strategies, and failure modes); design of multi-datacenter systems; failure domains; and wide-area networking.
• Proficient in modern languages, ideally Java and Golang, optionally Python
• Excellent communication, ability to partner with Infrastructure teams.
• A high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal platform customers.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations.
• Understanding of core SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management, SLOs.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Service management across a bare metal, virtualized (EC2), and containerized (Kubernetes) style platforms.
• Performance engineering (design concepts, profile-guided optimization).
• Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing.

Responsibilities

• manage, develop, and grow a team responsible for FoundationDB’s scalability and performance across Apple
• responsible for helping grow the iCloud service organization responsible for CloudKit and Content

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees