Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms
Austin, Texas, United States
Software and Services
At Apple, we believe in the power of technology to enrich people's lives. Everything we build is designed to empower people, including our advertising platform. We deliver ads in a way that benefits both customers and advertisers — helping people discover content, supporting creators, and protecting and respecting everyone’s privacy.
Our technology makes advertising possible on the App Store, Apple News, Stocks, and Apple TV. We help developers and marketers of all sizes drive app discovery across the App Store. Our display ads on Apple News and Stocks let advertisers promote their products alongside trusted content in a brand-safe environment, while supporting publishers and journalists. Sponsorship integrations and experiences in live sports on Apple TV help advertisers connect with captivated audiences. Everything we do is with the unwavering commitment to privacy you expect from Apple. Because when advertising is done right, it benefits everyone.
Key Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Clear and effective communicator, and enjoy collaborative problem solving.
- Experienced working on a shared codebase that supports web-scale, critical applications and appreciate the attention to detail that it requires.
- Demonstrated ability to implement and extend highly performant, resilient, reliable, and maintainable data pipelines and online services.
- Care deeply about software development practices and code quality; you are an eager advocate for standard methodologies.
- Experience with Spark, Hadoop, HIVE, Kafka, Cassandra or other distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Python, Java, Scala, SQL, and/or other relevant languages and frameworks
- Expertise in NoSQL datastores ( e.g Cassandra or DynamoDB )
- Experience working in cloud environments and are familiar with object stores, and other common cloud-native data storage and processing frameworks.
- Ability to take requirements from design through to implementation both independently and with larger teams.
- Understand modern data engineering approaches, stay on top of developments, and are aware of what leading players are doing.
- Experience working in CI/CD environments.
Description
Advertiser Services is a diverse, global, agile engineering team that moves smart and fast by consuming and optimizing readily-available technology, collaborating to improve and scale capabilities across businesses and use cases, and sharing our own innovative solutions so everyone can benefit. We are not constrained by organization structure and offer flexibility to work on a variety of backend systems, and we have fun doing it!
You will:
* Build the foundational pieces of the next generation of Apple’s Ad Platforms
* Work on a platform with challenging scale requirements.
* Design and implement performant data pipelines.
* Implement low latency, highly-available, high volume systems in a cloud environment.
* Engineer secure and scalable distributed data processing systems for campaign management.
Education & Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required; Master's degree preferred.