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Software Engineer (Transactional), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)

Apple· AI & Data Platforms (AiDP) / Data Services SRE
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Sunnyvale, CA$150.4k - $225.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Position within Apple’s AiDP Data Services SRE team focusing on transactional database fleets (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and platform tooling for provisioning, backup/restore, observability, and self-service across hybrid-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Apply core SRE concepts — monitoring, alerting, and incident management — with growing independence
  • Build working knowledge of transactional database concepts (consistency models, isolation levels, crash and recovery semantics) across Oracle, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
  • Support performance engineering efforts (profiling, tuning) across transactional engines, under guidance from senior team members
  • Assist with service management across bare metal, virtualized (EC2, Ali Cloud ECS), and containerized (K8s) style platforms
  • Execute and support data migration tasks across hybrid clouds, including validation and rollback support
  • Build understanding of operating systems and datacenter architecture concepts relevant to transactional workloads
  • Produce and maintain clear documentation — runbooks, architecture diagrams, and migration playbook updates
  • Support compliance with local data residency and regulatory requirements applicable to China-based infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering / Infrastructure focused role
  • 1+ year of Site Reliability experience working against production databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle or MongoDB
  • Hands-on production experience with at least one of Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, including exposure to On Call and Incident Management
  • Exposure to running infrastructure with reliance on automation tooling, across Datacenter and Cloud architectures (third party cloud)
  • Good understanding in one or more of the following programming languages: Python or Go
  • BS or MS in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience

Skills

Required:SRE concepts (monitoring, alerting, incident management)Transactional database conceptsPerformance engineering (profiling, tuning)Automation toolingPython or Go

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility and Apple stock benefits via employee programs
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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