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Senior Software Engineer, Apple Ads

Apple· Software and Services
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

On-device systems and platform engineering role focused on building ad delivery components across the Apple ecosystem, with emphasis on privacy-preserving, high-performance SDKs/daemons/frameworks. Collaborates across engineering, product, and business to shape the roadmap for on-device ad delivery. Not a UI role; requires systems knowledge, cross-process communication, and concurrency at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and implement on-device solutions that power ad delivery across the App Store, Apple News and Stocks, and Apple Maps
  • Design, implement, and debug performant, privacy-preserving on-device components that operate at scale inside daemons, frameworks, and SDKs
  • Partner across engineering, product, and business to shape the roadmap for on-device ad delivery

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Deep understanding of OS fundamentals (process/memory management, scheduling, file systems) on any platform
  • Professional software development in a C-like language
  • Familiarity with cross-process communication
  • Advanced understanding of concurrent programming concepts and design patterns — multi-threading, synchronization, locking, and reasoning about races/deadlocks
  • Experience building and operating high-performance client SDKs or libraries — including caching, versioning, breaking changes, and feature-flagged rollouts
  • Experience on complex, long-lived codebases, sometimes with legacy components
  • Quick learner with excellent communication

Skills

Required:OS fundamentalsC-like programmingCross-process communicationConcurrency
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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