Senior Database Systems Engineer
Apple
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Cupertino, CA · Posted October 29, 2026
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About the job
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! Apple is seeking experienced Database Systems Engineers to join our Cassandra Integration team. Appleʼs Cassandra organization develops and contributes to Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database powering many of Apple's most critical internet services. Join a team of experts, working with industry leading modern database technology, distributed systems and storage engineering to evolve Apache Cassandra. The team's work is deployed at massive scale. It also has big impact, providing the storage platform upon which many iCloud, Media, Apple Store and other internet services at Apple are built. The work in this role will benefit all users of Apple products and is crucial to the success of current and future offerings.