The Engineering Manager for iCloud's FoundationDB team will lead the development of data protection systems for Apple's advanced distributed databases. This role is crucial for ensuring data durability, integrity, availability, and cost-efficient storage at a massive scale. The team focuses on enhancing FoundationDB's capabilities, including backup and restore systems, change-data-capture, and tiered storage. The position requires a strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies.

• 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies.
• Experience with backup, restore, or replicated storage systems at scale.
• Experience directly supporting or owning online production systems or customer-deployed production systems.
• Solid understanding of transactional systems and data integrity principles.
• Experience working with RocksDB or similar storage engines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead complex technical initiatives.
• Experience designing or operating large-scale backup and recovery systems.
• Familiarity with change-data-capture and data replication pipelines.
• Experience with parallel task execution, scheduling, or distributed workflows.
• Background in database internals or storage engine development.
• Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.

• Lead efforts to create highly available backup systems that can serve as active replicas for online workloads.
• Improve availability and storage efficiency through innovative data protection capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance database internals and storage engines.
• Oversee the development of client-facing APIs related to data protection.
• Ensure the implementation of best practices for data durability and integrity.

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.