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Senior Database Systems Engineer
AIK · Posted 5 days ago
Help evolve Apache Cassandra, the open source database behind iCloud and Apple Store services, working on tenant isolation, rate limiting, and bulk analytics at massive scale.
Summary: Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! Apple is seeking experienced Database Systems Engineers to join our Cassandra Integration team. Appleʼs Cassandra organization develops and contributes to Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database powering many of Apple's most critical internet services. Join a team of experts, working with industry leading modern database technology, distributed systems and storage engineering to evolve Apache Cassandra. The team's work is deployed at massive scale. It also has big impact, providing the storage platform upon which many iCloud, Media, Apple Store and other internet services at Apple are built. The work in this role will benefit all users of Apple products and is crucial to the success of current and future offerings.
Description: Appleʼs Cassandra Integration team develops systems that are correct, 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 open source components of Apache Cassandra and it's growing official ecosystem, including authentication / authorization, control plane (Apache Cassandra Sidecar), bulk analytics (Apache Cassandra Analytics) and full featured, deep integrations inside and around Apache Cassandraʼs massive ecosystem!
Key Responsibilities: As a member of this team, you will build and evolve major components of the database. There areas include:
- Bulk Data Interchange
- Data and Control Plane Isolation
- Security and authorization
- Tenant isolation
- Traffic and load balancing
- Quota and rate limiting
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