Software Engineer - Specialised Database at Apple

London, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

27 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

27 Jan, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java, Data Structures, Algorithms, Cassandra, Redis/Valkey, Voldemort, NoSQL Database, Internet Services, Platform Infrastructure, RESTful API, RPC API, Distributed Systems, Key-Value Store Internals, Storage Engines, Virtualisation, Containerisation

Industry

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

Description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple is seeking a database engineer to join our Specialized Databases team to work on our proprietary key-value database. Apple’s Data Services organisation develops and manages distributed databases powering many of Apple's most critical internet services. You will be joining a team of experts, working at the cutting edge of modern database technology, distributed systems and storage engineering. The team's work is deployed at massive scale. It also has big impact, providing the storage platform upon which many internet services at Apple are built. Your work will benefit all users of Apple products and is critical to the success of current and future offerings. DESCRIPTION Apple’s Specialized Database team develops storage systems that are correct, reliable, scalable, and fast. As a member of this team, you will build and evolve major components of the database. You will be working on all stages of the lifecycle from design, implementation and runtime. You will help build the large scale data services, which provide and support abilities like unstructured storage, high-throughput and very low latency data retrieval, replication and much more. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with various Apple teams, from store and commerce through to search and recommendations, AIML, creating services and infrastructure platforms and pipelines that can rapidly scale and serve personalised and non-personalised data with very low latency. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Proficient in modern Java Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms. Experience with Cassandra, Redis/Valkey, Voldemort, or other NoSQL database. Track record developing critical internet services and/or platform infrastructure Strong expertise designing and implementing RESTful/RPC API and services. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency models, partitioning, replication) Knowledge of key-value store internals and storage engines Familiarity of virtualisation, containerisation, Kubernetes Contributions to open source communities

Responsibilities

The role involves building and evolving major components of a proprietary key-value database, covering the entire lifecycle from design to runtime. Responsibilities include developing large-scale data services that support unstructured storage, high-throughput, and very low latency data retrieval.