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Apple Sr Engineering Leader - FoundationDB 
United States, West Virginia 
873052843

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As the engineering leader for FoundationDB, you will own the vision and roadmap for a core component of the iCloud platform, guiding foundational technologies that ensure data availability, recovery, and self-healing. You’ll work with exceptional engineers and a vibrant open source community to solve complex problems in distributed computing, all within an environment that values autonomy, creativity, and long-term thinking.
You will collaborate with exceptional engineers solving some of the hardest problems in distributed computing. You will also help build and foster an inclusive, open source community around FoundationDB, working alongside a global ecosystem of contributors and adopters.Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, strong engineering leadership, and a passion for building reliable, mission critical infrastructure. You will thrive in an environment that values autonomy, creativity, long term thinking, and technical rigor.
  • Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the technical and product roadmap for FoundationDB in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders.
  • Team Management: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team focused on distributed databases, storage systems, concurrency, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Open Source Stewardship: Champion and foster an inclusive, engaged, and growing open-source community around FoundationDB.
  • Technical Excellence: Guide complex architectural decisions and contribute to hands-on development to maintain FoundationDB’s reputation for reliability, scalability, and determinism.
  • Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams including adopters, product management, site reliability engineering (SRE), and solutions engineering to ensure seamless integration and adoption.
  • Engineering Culture: Oversee development velocity, code quality, testing practices, and release processes to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software.
  • Operational Oversight: Support the availability, durability, and performance of production systems operating at scale.
  • Advocacy: Represent FoundationDB in industry forums, conferences, and through technical blogs and community engagement.
  • Decades of proven experience in software engineering with at least 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles
  • Deep expertise in distributed databases and storage systems, critical expertise required for success in this role
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes
  • Strong background in C++, concurrency models, storage layers, and fault-tolerant architectures
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work across organizational boundaries and with external contributors
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex priorities in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
  • Passion for building strong engineering cultures rooted in transparency, mentorship, and technical rigor
  • Track record of thought leadership in systems engineering, or experience leading & scaling open-source projects or communities is highly preferred
  • Prior experience contributing to open source distributed databases, or similar distributed databases
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.