Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB

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Salary

$228K-$343K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

145% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Engineering Manager, Data Protection - FoundationDB Cupertino, United States of America At Apple, iCloud and Apple Services Engineering (ASE) build and operate the platforms that power critical customer experiences across a globally distributed ecosystem. iCloud'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. 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. 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. Minimum Qualifications: 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams. Strong background in

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