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ivated audiences. Everything we do is with the unwavering commitment to privacy you expect from Apple. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone. The Database Solutions team under Ad Platforms at Apple is drives database technologies selection, standards, patterns, and optimization to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of databases at scale. The team partners closely with Ads engineering and other SRE and infrastructure teams to enable delivering product objectives via design, configuration, and maintenance of a fleet of databases that supports the Ad Platforms applications. We are looking for Database Engineer candidates who will contribute to architecture and design solutions for multiple database technologies including Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL -both on-premises and in AWS, and will provide exceptional support for fast-paced, sophisticated distributed database production and non-production environments supporting OLTP and OLAP systems.
Description
Take ownership of fast-paced, complex, and distributed database environments (200+ Oracle, Aurora Postgres, and Aurora MySQL databases) supporting OLTP and OLAP systems across on-premises and AWS Design, build, and continuously maintain high performance and highly available database and change data capture infrastructure Migrate mission-critical database applications leveraging on-prem Oracle to using AWS Aurora Postgres Work closely with development engineering teams in advancing their strategic initiatives, operational readiness, engineering standards, designs, and performance Support various database maintenance activities like database upgrades, patch management, user management, and backup and recovery Setup and maintain Oracle GoldenGate Active-Active environments for databases and Big Data Configure Oracle Data Guard and RAC for high availability and implement zero data loss solutions Implement infrastructure automation and scripting using tools like Shell, Python, and Terraform Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues and tune SQL queries proficiently Database on-call for production and non-production during US hours as part of a 12x7 rotation
Minimum Qualifications
3 or more years of industry experience designing, managing, and supporting production databases at scale
2+ years supporting Oracle databases
1+ years supporting Aurora Postgres and Aurora MySQL
Experience in handling architectural & design considerations such as performance, scalability and availability
Expertise in relational database engineering and administration for on-prem and RDS Oracle (19c, 12c), Aurora Postgres (12+), and Aurora MySQL (5.7+)
Working knowledge in change data capture technologies (GoldenGate, Debezium)
Very skilled in database monitoring, tuning, and alerting with tools like Datadog, OEM, CloudWatch, Grafana, PagerDuty or similar technologies
Experienced in Infrastructure as Code via Terraform or similar technologies
Good knowledge of Linux/Unix internals, systems/application design & architecture
Strong analytical, critical thinking, and root cause analysis
Have the ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
Preferred Qualifications
Graduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
Ad-Tech work experience
Experience with NOSQL technologies
Current AWS certifications
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