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Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Apple
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Hyderabadfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on Apple Ads' Ad Delivery Services, building and operating low-latency back-end services for ad delivery, with responsibility across end-to-end capability areas, data pipelines, observability, and on-call incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate low-latency backend services that participate in every ad request, with strict SLAs and fail-safe behavior
  • Own one or more Ad Delivery capability areas end-to-end — from service design and data contracts to production operations
  • Build near-real-time data pipelines that keep runtime services accurate: spend counters, policy rules, targeting attributes, and traffic-quality signals
  • Define and evolve service contracts with the adserver and adjacent platforms (auction, ranking, experimentation, retrieval)
  • Implement fail-closed semantics — when a signal is missing or stale, safely decline to serve and emit a structured reason code that flows through the downstream funnel
  • Contribute to a shared data-grid plane used by ad serving for local, region-replicated lookups
  • Build observability, debugging, and replay tooling so on-call engineers can quickly reason about eligibility, spend, and policy decisions
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for production ad-delivery systems
  • Partner with engineers across Cupertino, Austin, and Hyderabad in a one-team model

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend or distributed systems
  • Strong programming skills in Java (Spring / Spring Boot), including concurrency and JVM performance
  • Hands-on experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency services with sub-100 ms latency budgets
  • Solid understanding of service design fundamentals — REST/gRPC APIs, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, backpressure, and graceful degradation
  • Experience with streaming data infrastructure such as Apache Kafka or equivalent
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), container orchestration, and CI/CD
  • Strong operational instincts — metrics, logging, alerting, and on-call ownership
  • Hands-on experience with using AI for development and/or building AI-based tools

Skills

Required:JavaBackend / Distributed SystemsREST/gRPC APIsStreaming Data (Kafka)Cloud / CI/CDObservability / SRE
Nice to have:AI for development
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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