Apple
Sr. Principal Engineer - FoundationDB
$262K–$394K
Cupertino, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Define FoundationDB’s technical vision and architecture, guiding major distributed-database challenges and team growth.
What you'll do
- Set long-term technical vision and architectural direction for FoundationDB.
- Guide work on the transaction layer, scalability architecture, CDC pipeline, log storage, and tiered storage.
- Advise and mentor engineers and partner with leadership and cross-functional teams on technical priorities.
What they ask for
- 15+ years designing, implementing, and operating highly scalable distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in planet-scale database systems, with hands-on experience with Spanner, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, or comparable technology.
- Ability to define and communicate long-term technical strategy across large engineering organizations.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with modern data storage systems.
- Knowledge of security & privacy.
Pay
$262,500 and $394,000 USD base salary
Tools
FoundationDB, Spanner, DynamoDB, CockroachDB
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