Backend Engineer – Scalable Ads Platform

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking an Ads Engineering Backend Engineer to help power Apple Ads across App Store, News, and MLS Season Pass.

You will design and implement low-latency, highly available services in a cloud environment, scale distributed systems, and collaborate with Product, Data, and SRE teams to support a range of advertising use cases while maintaining privacy and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.
• 2+ years of industry experience building scalable microservices or data-driven platforms.
• Experience with public cloud technologies and APIs (AWS, GCP).
• Strong CS fundamentals and knowledge of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build the foundational pieces of the next generation of Apple Ad systems.
• Implement low latency, highly available internal and external facing services in a cloud environment.
• Design and implement efficient services to support rapid growth with minimal operational overheads.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Management, Data, SRE, and others to support various Ads use cases.

Skills

OOP programming

Distributed systems

Microservices design

Problem solving

Debugging skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

AWS

GCP

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking an Ads Engineering Backend Engineer to help power Apple Ads across App Store, News, and MLS Season Pass.

You will design and implement low-latency, highly available services in a cloud environment, scale distributed systems, and collaborate with Product, Data, and SRE teams to support a range of advertising use cases while maintaining privacy and security standards.