Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB

About the role

This role focuses on building and evolving FoundationDB's data protection capabilities, including fast backup and restore, change-data-capture, tiered storage systems, and client-facing APIs. You will lead efforts to create highly available backup systems that can also serve as active replicas for online workloads, significantly improving availability and storage efficiency. This work sits at the intersection of database internals, storage engines, and distributed execution.","responsibilities":"Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for FoundationDB backup, restore, and data protection systems. Design and implement scalable, highly available backup and restore architectures. Drive development of tiered storage systems and CDC pipelines that support both recovery and online use. Ensure strong data integrity guarantees across transactional and replicated systems. Partner with core database, storage, and client teams to integrate data protection seamlessly into FoundationDB. Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of large-scale backup storage systems. Set technical direction while maintaining high engineering quality and operational rigor.

Requirements

• Experience designing or operating large-scale backup and recovery systems.
• Familiarity with change-data-capture and data replication pipelines.
• Experience with parallel task execution, scheduling, or distributed workflows.
• Background in database internals or storage engine development.
• Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.
• 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems and storage technologies.
• Experience with backup, restore, or replicated storage systems at scale.
• Experience directly supporting or owning online production systems or customer-deployed production systems.
• Solid understanding of transactional systems and data integrity principles.
• Experience working with RocksDB or similar storage engines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead complex technical initiatives.","internalDetails":null
• Pay & Benefits
• Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Additional Information

Apple's FoundationDB team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead data protection systems for one of the most advanced distributed databases in production today. FoundationDB powers Apple's most critical cloud services, and this role is central to ensuring data durability, integrity, availability, and cost-efficient storage at massive scale.

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