Apple · 1 day ago
Databases SRE Manager, ASE Cassandra SRE Manager
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$188K/yr - $326K/yrApple’s Services Engineering organization (ASE) is seeking experienced database systems engineering managers to join our Databases SRE organization. The role focuses on managing and developing a team responsible for Apache Cassandra’s scalability and performance, while also contributing to various database technologies within the Seattle campus.
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Responsibilities
Manage, develop, and grow a team responsible for Cassandra’s scalability and performance across Apple
Grow the larger database and service organization within the Seattle campus leading automation and scaling initiatives across the Cassandra, Kafka, Solr, Redis, and etcd SRE teams
Develop applications and tooling that are safe, reliable, scalable, and fast
Contribute to all major components of Cassandra deployment infrastructure, including maintenance automation, backup service application, monitoring and alerting tooling/dashboards, deployment architecture
Contribute back to the upstream patches to the database focused on stability, performance, and scaling
Qualification
Required
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience
Ability to rapidly build credibility with engineers, customers, and partners and quickly learn new technical domains
Expertise in project management, project planning, and making the unpredictable predictable
Experience developing or leading work in distributed systems, database systems, storage engines, validation engineering, or performance engineering
Proficient in modern Java and optionally Python / Golang
Understanding of core SRE concepts - Monitoring, Alerting, Incident management
Experience developing or leading work in distributed systems engineering
Experience leading control plane services for managing data plane infrastructure
Experience managing or developing critical internet services / platform infrastructure
Understanding of distributed systems and database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics)
Understanding of database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics)
Performance engineering (design concepts, profile-guided optimization)
Service management across a bare metal, virtualized (EC2), and containerized (K8s) style platforms
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
Excellent communication, ability to partner with our Core Storage and Analytics teams, and a high degree of customer focus when engaging with internal platform customers
Ability to work effectively with colleagues based in other locations
Preferred
Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing
Experience developing critical internet services and/or platform infrastructure
Comfort working with geographically distributed partners
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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