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Database Systems SRE, ASE Cassandra SRE
Apple
Seattle, Washington
Source: Apple careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $142,300 — $263,300 USD per year
Employer job description
From Apple's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Apple’s Services Engineering organization (ASE) is seeking experienced database systems engineers to join our Cassandra SRE team. Engineers in ASE Cassandra SRE develop and contribute to software built to manage Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database powering some of Apple's most critical internet services. You will be joining a team of experts, working at the cutting edge of modern database deployment architectures, distributed systems.
The team's work is deployed at massive scale, serving millions of queries per second over hundreds of petabytes of data across our data-centers worldwide. It also has big impact, forming the platform upon which iCloud and many other internet services at Apple are built. In ASE, your work will benefit hundreds of millions of users and is critical to the success of some of the most visible current and future Apple features.
Description
The ASE Cassandra SRE team develops applications and tooling that are safe, reliable, scalable, and fast. This work requires an innovative spirit and an extraordinary degree of care and rigor in engineering. Team members contribute to all major components of Cassandra deployment infrastructure, including maintenance automation, backup service application, monitoring and alerting tooling/dashboards, deployment architecture, as well as contributing back to the upstream patches to the database focused on stability, performance, and