Apple
Software Engineer (Transactional), AI & Data Platforms (AiDP)
$150K–$225K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in an SRE / Infrastructure focused role and 1+ year of Site Reliability experience with production databases.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science / related fields or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Supports and develops platform tooling for Apple's transactional database fleet, including reliability operations, performance work, and hybrid-cloud data migrations.
What you'll do
- Apply SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident management; support transactional database operations and performance engineering.
- Assist with infrastructure and data migrations across datacenter, cloud, and containerized platforms, including validation and rollback.
- Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and migration documentation while supporting data residency and regulatory compliance.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Good understanding in one or more of the following programming languages: Python or Go.
Nice to have
- Some operational experience with stateful services on Kubernetes.
- Experience assisting with cross-cloud / hybrid-cloud data migrations for transactional systems.
Pay
$150,400 and $225,300 (base salary range)
Tools
Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB, EC2, Ali Cloud ECS, K8s, Python or Go
AI focus
The role supports AiDP data services infrastructure; no specific AI work is described.
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