ASE Cassandra Storage - Database Systems Engineering Manager

Apple’s Cassandra organization develops storage 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 components of Apache Cassandra, including query coordination and execution, replication and persistence, transactions and consensus, compaction, client and internode messaging, and all other aspects of the database.

• Build, manage, and grow a team responsible for major components of the database
• Contribute to all major components of Apache Cassandra
• Develop and contribute to Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database
• Lead a team of experts working at the cutting edge of modern database technology, distributed systems, and storage engineering
• Deploy at massive scale and have big impact on Apple's most critical internet services

• Track record of building and growing infrastructure teams
• Ability to rapidly build credibility with engineers, customers, and partners
• Ability to quickly learn and become conversant in new technical domains
• Comfort working with geographically distributed teams
• Experience working through relationships and influence to accomplish goals
• Expertise in project management, project planning, and making the unpredictable predictable
• Experience managing or developing critical internet services / platform infrastructure
• Experience developing or leading work in distributed systems, database systems, storage engines, validation engineering, or performance engineering
• Advanced understanding of data structures and algorithms in storage and indexing
• Proficient in modern Java

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
• Discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

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