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Software Engineer, Database - PostgreSQL - AiDP, IS&T

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Corporate Functions

Summary

Posted: Aug 06, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200614330

The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, extraordinary ideas have a way of becoming industry leading products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Our engineers develop and operate Apple’s relational database 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 engineers working at the cutting edge of modern database deployment architectures and running distributed systems at a very large scale. Developers on our team ensure our database services are completely API-driven, reliable, efficient and resilient with a high degree of auto-remediation ensuring high availability and durability. In building database platform at Apple, supporting many highly-visible Apple services and features, your work will impact the experience of millions of users worldwide.

Description

As a team we are responsible for developing highly reliable and API driven micro-services to maintain and manage the lifecycle of PostgreSQL databases at Apple, while ensuring a high level of observability and durability for our customers. Maintaining and enhancing monitoring and alerting is equally important for the role. Understanding of core reliability concepts - observability, monitoring, alerting, fault tolerance, auto-remediation would help to be successful in the role.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Automation: Develop and maintain tools to streamline database management tasks and performance tuning.

API-Driven Services: Design, build, and maintain API-driven services to automate interactions with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, enabling efficient database operations and integrations.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Integrate database management tasks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated deployments.

Monitoring and Alerting: Implement automated monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address relational database issues via self-healing mechanisms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor Science, Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience

• Experience building highly available software services or platform infrastructure

• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining API-driven services

• Proficient in Python or Go

• Relational database fundamental concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and interacting with Cloud APIs for AWS and GCP

• Good understanding of PostgreSQL internals

• Experience with Java/Kotlin/C/C++ will be an advantage

• Experience supporting PaaS or DBaaS

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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