Database Engineer, IS Data Services

Apple

Apple is renowned for innovative products and services that revolutionize industries. The diverse team at Apple fosters creativity and excellence in technology and environmental efforts. This role involves working with smart people and cutting-edge technologies to support products like Maps, Siri, and iCloud through cloud-based PostgreSQL database services.

In this role you can expect to have the responsibilities:

• Administer production, QA, and development database infrastructure.
• Provide database architecture and design solutions.
• Set up, configure, upgrade, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot database infrastructure.
• Create automation scripts for database systems.
• Implement best practices for disaster recovery and backups.
• Measure and optimize system performance and manage capacity planning.
• Conduct performance benchmarking.
• Lead cloud-deployed databases on AWS and Kubernetes.

This role comes with the following benefits:

This role requires you to have:

• 3+ years supporting Postgres databases in high-volume environments.
• Experience in optimizing and performance tuning of Postgres.
• Hands-on experience with replication configuration and support.
• Proficiency in SQL, Shell/Python/GO.
• Experience with AWS (RDS/EC2).

You would benefit from having:

• Background in building large infrastructure for high transaction environments.
• Experience administering multi-terabyte databases.
• Strong communication skills across multiple business and technical teams.
• Ability to thrive under tight delivery timelines.
• Capability to learn new technologies independently.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring equal opportunity for applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristics.