Sr. Principal Engineer - FoundationDB

Apple • Operating Systems • Laptops • 4 days ago
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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 12, 2026. Apple scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Apple is an American multinational technology company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and headquartered in Cupertino, California. It designs and sells consumer hardware including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and Vision Pro, together with the operating systems and silicon that run them. A growing services division built around the App Store, iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Pay now contributes a large share of profit, making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world.
apple.com • HQ: Cupertino, United States • Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers • Operating Systems • Tablets • Laptops • Smartphones • 5000+ employees • Est. 1976
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Apple is home to some of the most complex and consequential infrastructure in the world. At the center of iCloud's platform is FoundationDB, a planet-scale database system powering tens of billions of databases and some of Apple's most critical services.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join this team and serve as its technical north star: defining architectural direction, shaping the hardest problems in distributed databases, and helping grow the team that brings that vision to life.

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