Database Engineer (PostgreSQL SRE)

Apple; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Postgres Database Team in Bangalore is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Engineer to design, deploy and operate a high-volume, multi-cloud Postgres fleet across bare metal, AWS and Kubernetes. You will drive performance tuning, HA/DR planning, backups, migrations with near-zero downtime, and implement secure configurations while partnering with application teams.

The role requires 5–8 years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in customer-facing environments and a solid grasp of MVCC,

Qualifications

• 5–8 years hands-on PostgreSQL in a high-volume, customer-facing environment.
• Experience with PostgreSQL architecture, upgrades, patching, and monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of MVCC, replication (logical/physical), and high-availability concepts.
• Ability to plan migrations with minimal downtime and perform capacity planning.
• Experience with backups (pg_dump/restore) and security best practices.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

High availability

Replication

Performance tuning

Backup/restore

Cloud & Kubernetes

Python knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

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The Postgres Database Team is responsible for design, configuration and maintenance of fleet of Postgres databases under Data Services. We are engaged in interacting with application team to understand their requirements and suggesting optimal database solution to them. The Postgres databases are deployed across baremetal, AWS and Kubernetes.

Description

We are part of Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) division, and are based primarily in Sunnyvale, California with teams in Austin (TX), Seattle, Bangalore and Hyderabad India working as a single global team.

The job is located in Bangalore, India.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-8 years supporting Postgres databases in a high volume customer facing environmentIn depth understanding of PostgreSQL architecture.
• Database Infrastructure Setup, Configuration, upgrading/Patching, Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Handle day-to-day operations and issues provide the detailed RCA for outages.
• InDepth understanding of MVCC and how it's handled in PostgerSQL
• Upgrade databases major/minor version and migrations with near to zero downtime.
• Experience on HA (High Availability) Configuration and strong knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts
• Hands-on experience in configuring and supporting replication (logical/physical/active-active )
• Strong experience in optimizing and performance tuning of Postgres including drill-down analysis and awareness of execution plan
• Measurement and optimization of system performance Capacity planning and forecast management
• Provide database architecture and design solutions.
• Experience with PostgreSQL Security best practice implementations
• Implement standard methodologies Backups (pg_dump/restore , online backup, incremental backup)
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline delivery timeline
• Participate in new technology/extension/feature evaluation, design, and development of highly scalable distributed databases
• Performance benchmarking via pgbench or other opensource tool
• Should able to manage the databases deployed in Cloud Infrastructure including AWS/GCP and Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Python knowledge

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