Job description

We are looking for collaborative, curious, and pragmatic Software Engineers to be part of this innovative team. In this role, you will: Directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services for years to come. Designing, building and maintaining the software and services to improve the feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple's internal cloud infrastructure. Ability to make tradeoffs on availability and performance while prioritizing durability are crucial. Design and implement features for a distributed key-value store like automatic repairs, shard splits and rebalances. Massively scalable, currently spread across 2000+ hosts and handles 5M+ transactions per second to support critical infrastructural systems and frameworks. We are building a strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database using custom transaction log on Raft/ZAB using RocksDB as storage engine. Collaborate with internal teams, including customer teams and the storage reliability engineering team. Focused on building testable, maintainable code and scalable processes across the team. 10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems 5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail. Experience coding in one or more of these programming languages: Rust, C++, Java or C# Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience. MS or PhD in Computer Science Proven track record for building, launching and operating large-scale production internet services Knowledge of Java, non-blocking and thread safe programming Knowledge of distributed databases, distributed storage, or similar mass-scale Distributed Systems Familiarity with RocksDB

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Must-haves

We are looking for collaborative, curious, and pragmatic Software Engineers to be part of this innovative team. In this role, you will:
Directly impact the direction for the backend of many critical Apple internet services for years to come.
Designing, building and maintaining the software and services to improve the feature set, availability, scalability and security of Apple's internal cloud infrastructure.
Ability to make tradeoffs on availability and performance while prioritizing durability are crucial.
Design and implement features for a distributed key-value store like automatic repairs, shard splits and rebalances.
Massively scalable, currently spread across 2000+ hosts and handles 5M+ transactions per second to support critical infrastructural systems and frameworks.
We are building a strongly consistent, distributed, ordered key-value database using custom transaction log on Raft/ZAB using RocksDB as storage engine.
Collaborate with internal teams, including customer teams and the storage reliability engineering team.
Focused on building testable, maintainable code and scalable processes across the team.
10 years of professional software development experience on software or infrastructure systems
5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
Experience coding in one or more of these programming languages: Rust, C++, Java or C#
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
MS or PhD in Computer Science
Proven track record for building, launching and operating large-scale production internet services
Knowledge of Java, non-blocking and thread safe programming
Knowledge of distributed databases, distributed storage, or similar mass-scale Distributed Systems
Familiarity with RocksDB

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rustjava

Platform: apple
Effort: medium