Senior Cloud Engineer - Apple Ads

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in tech is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in scalable and efficient advertising infrastructure. This role requires significant experience in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and an understanding of cloud environments. The successful candidate will enhance developer workflows and ensure reliable infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Strong programming background with languages like Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Define infrastructure strategy with a focus on cost-efficiency and developer velocity.
• Lead incident responses and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Design Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Linux

Kubernetes

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Job description

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

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Description

The Reliability Engineering organization within Apple Ads is responsible for the scale, availability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity of our advertising infrastructure. This is not a DevOps or CI/CD-only role—we’re looking for engineers who build strategic, long-term platform solutions.As a senior technical contributor, you will:- Define and evolve the infrastructure strategy for Apple Ads with a strong focus on developer velocity, scale, and cost-efficiency.- Partner with Engineering Experience and Developer Platform teams to deliver paved-path infrastructure that enables fast and reliable development workflows.- Evaluate and transform existing infrastructure, looking around the corner for inefficiencies, modernizing architectures, and championing long-term improvements across reliability, performance, and observability.- Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives to raise the operational bar across systems and teams.- Build tooling and automation frameworks for repeatable, secure, and scalable infrastructure delivery.- Design and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and other frameworks.- Drive alignment across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams—ensuring that technical decisions support both developer needs and business goals.- Bring empathy to developer pain points and create infrastructure experiences that are simple, scalable, and delightful to use.- Understand advertising business flows and contribute infrastructure insights that improve monetization, fill rate, and time-to-market for new ad formats.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience operating large-scale internet-facing distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep experience designing and running infrastructure in AWS (or equivalent public cloud environments) with production ownership responsibilities.
• Proven track record of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using Terraform.
• Expertise with Linux-based systems, including a strong grasp of internals, networking, and systems programming fundamentals.
• Strong software development background ideally having worked as an application developer using languages like Python, Go, or similar.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Nomad).
• Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to partnering across teams.
• Strong ownership mindset, with attention to business goals, cost efficiency, and infrastructure scalability.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior or mid-level engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in Ad Tech infrastructure at scale, including exposure to business metrics like fill rate, revenue per search, and latency-sensitive delivery.
• Experience designing developer platforms or paved paths for infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment.
• Hands-on experience building and running low-latency, high-throughput applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and reliability patterns.
• Comfort working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Familiarity with observability tooling, CI/CD best practices, and cost optimization strategies.
• Proficiency in additional languages such as Java, Go, or Rust.

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