Software Engineer

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

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers’ experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they’re looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses. Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes—from small app developers to big, global brands. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.

Description

Ads Engineering builds ad tech the Apple way—privacy-preserving, user-centric, and built to scale. Our infrastructure supports massive real-time demand with low latency, precision, and global reach. Our work spans distributed systems, large-scale data infrastructure, LLMs, and Generative AI. We design and build best of breed systems for dealing with our complex and ever-growing platform needs that help deliver highly optimized advertising content to consumers.

Responsibilities

• Build the foundational pieces of the next generation of Apple Ad’s systems
• Implement low latency, highly - available, high volume internal and external facing services in a cloud environment.
• Design and implement performant services created with the right principles to support rapid growth with minimal operational overheads
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including Product Management, Data, SRE, etc. to design and implement systems that can handle a variety of Ads use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 or more years of industry experience building scalable micro services or data driven platforms
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Prior experience with OOPS programming (eg., Java/C++ or equivalent)
• Familiarity with cloud paradigms ( e.g AWS or GCP )
• Expertise in building backend distributed systems
• Experience with creating solutions using public cloud technologies and APIs
• Strong understanding of Micro-service design and high-scale performance tuning
• Expertise in relational and non relational datastore
• Proficiency in data processing technologies (e.g Kafka, Spark, Flink )
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• A desire to work in a fast-paced work environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering discipline or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proficiency in Java
• Prior experience in advertising industry is a plus

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