Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platforms

Apple, Inc.
United States, California, Cupertino
April 24, 2024
Summary Posted: Feb 21, 2024 Weekly Hours: 40 Role Number: 200521986 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 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. Prior experience with Search technologies (Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search etc.) Expertise in NoSQL datastores ( e.g Cassandra ) Proficiency in data processing technologies (e.g Kafka, Spark, Flink ) Experience designing scalable micro services. Familiarity with cloud paradigms ( e.g AWS ) Demonstrated ability to work on complex problems and systems Strong problem solving and debugging skills. Have the ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams. A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment Description Ad-Serving 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. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and used by internal systems and thousands of developers and advertisers worldwide while protecting user privacy. While the role will be focussed on the search and indexing part of Ad Serving, 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: - Collaborate with multiple internal teams to support indexing and searching use cases across the organization. - Design and implement performant services to support high volume data & QPS. - Implement low latency, highly - available, high volume user facing ad-serving systems in a cloud environment. - Engineer secure and scalable distributed data processing systems that generate data required for online ad-serving systems. Education & Experience Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required. Master's degree preferred. Additional Requirements Pay & Benefits At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $170,700.00 and $256,500.00, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.