Low-Latency Ad-Serving Backend Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation

Apple stock programs

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products

Tuition reimbursement

Bonuses or commissions

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to design, develop, and operate distributed ad-serving systems at internet scale. You will build low-latency, high-availability services in the cloud, enabling real-time ad selection and ranking across Apple’s platforms.

You will work with indexing, search, and AI techniques to ensure accurate ad delivery while maintaining privacy and reliability. The role demands strong CS fundamentals, experience with scalable micro-services, and proficiency in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of industry experience architecting and developing internet-scale server software.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, Rust, C++, Scala, or a similar language.
• Experience with search technologies such as Lucene, Solr, or Elasticsearch and NoSQL datastores (Cassandra).
• Experience with data processing technologies (Kafka, Spark, Flink) for petabyte-scale datasets.
• Experience with AWS services and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement internet-scale, low-latency, highly available ad-serving systems in a cloud environment.
• Build performant micro-services and distributed data platforms for high data volumes and QPS.
• Engineer secure, scalable distributed data processing pipelines for petabyte-scale datasets.
• Apply ML, NLP, and AI techniques to enhance candidate retrieval and ranking.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support indexing and searching use cases.
• Define requirements with product and operations teams and deliver end-to-end systems.
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across large-scale distributed systems.
• Stay current with advances in search, retrieval, ML/AI, and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Scala

Algorithms & data structures

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Elasticsearch

Cassandra

Kafka

Spark

Kubernetes

AWS (S3, EC2, EKS)

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to design, develop, and operate distributed ad-serving systems at internet scale. You will build low-latency, high-availability services in the cloud, enabling real-time ad selection and ranking across Apple’s platforms.

You will work with indexing, search, and AI techniques to ensure accurate ad delivery while maintaining privacy and reliability. The role demands strong CS fundamentals, experience with scalable micro-services, and proficiency in