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Staff Software Engineer, Apple Ads

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Advertiser Services is a global engineering team at Apple focused on building and scaling back-end systems and data pipelines for Apple’s Ad Platforms, with emphasis on privacy, performance, and collaboration with product management. The role involves designing APIs, building scalable microservices and data processing systems, and providing shared capabilities to support multiple partners.

Responsibilities

  • Build the foundational pieces of the next generation of Apple’s Ad Platforms
  • Collaborate with product management to define external APIs for campaign management
  • Design and implement performant services and data pipelines
  • Build shared capabilities like Authentication, Authorization etc to support multiple internal and external partners
  • Implement low latency, highly - available, high volume advertiser facing systems in a cloud environment
  • Engineer secure and scalable distributed data processing systems for campaign management

Qualifications

  • 10 or more years of industry experience building scalable micro services or data driven platforms
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Prior experience with Java/Scala/C++ or equivalent
  • Expertise in relational datastores (e.g Postgres or Oracle)
  • Expertise in NoSQL datastores (e.g Cassandra or DynamoDB)
  • Proficiency in data processing technologies (e.g Kafka, Spark, Flink )
  • Experience crafting scalable micro services
  • Familiarity with cloud paradigms ( e.g AWS or GCP )
  • Proven ability to work on sophisticated problems and systems
  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
  • Desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment
  • Prior experience in advertising industry is a plus

Skills

Required:Java/Scala/C++Relational DatabasesNoSQL DatastoresData Processing TechnologiesCloud PlatformsMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments possible
  • Relocation assistance possible
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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