Job description

The Apple Postgres team develops and operates a highly reliable, cloud relational databases service that serves all of Apple. We’re looking for curious, enthusiastic and collaborative developers with an extraordinary degree of care and rigor in engineering who can contribute to all major components of PostgreSQL, including query execution, storage, replication, high-availability, scaling, administration, new feature development and all other aspects of the database. Success in this role requires a high level of expertise in several of the following:  - Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers, network interfaces) in server class systems - Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance) - Understanding of database concepts (relational algebra, query optimization, consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics) - Advanced concepts such as failure detection, load balancing, request pipelining and operational semantics of high-throughput systems - Performance engineering, understanding of advanced testing methodologies, familiarity with debugging and profiling tools BS in Computer Science/related fields with 5+ years of relevant work experience High level of proficiency in C, C++, Rust Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing, coding in C, C++ Demonstrated experience developing database systems, storage engines, distributed systems Experience developing software in open source communities Knowledge of the internals of relational databases such as PostgreSQL (or MySQL, MariaDB) MS in Computer Science/related fields with 8+ years of relevant experience Expertise with code performance and optimization  Expertise with Relational database systems architecture Knowledge of Linux Kernel development

Requirements

Must-haves

Success in this role requires a high level of expertise in several of the following:
Fundamentals of system-level hardware and networking components (storage devices and controllers,
network interfaces) in server class systems
Operating systems concepts (process scheduling, disk and network I/O, performance)
Understanding of database concepts (relational algebra, query optimization, consistency models, isolation
levels, crash and recovery semantics)
Advanced concepts such as failure detection, load balancing, request pipelining and operational semantics of
high-throughput systems
Performance engineering, understanding of advanced testing methodologies, familiarity with debugging and
profiling tools
BS in Computer Science/related fields with 5+ years of relevant work experience
High level of proficiency in C, C++, Rust
Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing, coding in C, C++
Demonstrated experience developing database systems, storage engines, distributed systems
Experience developing software in open source communities
Knowledge of the internals of relational databases such as PostgreSQL (or MySQL, MariaDB)
MS in Computer Science/related fields with 8+ years of relevant experience
Expertise with code performance and optimization
Expertise with Relational database systems architecture
Knowledge of Linux Kernel development

Nice-to-haves

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Keywords to mirror

postgresrust

Platform: apple
Effort: medium