Software Engineer, Apple Ads

Quick Facts

• Team: Apple Ads Engineering
• Focus: Backend systems for real-time ad selection and ad-serving

Description

Design, develop, and operate distributed services that enable real-time ad selection at internet scale. Build low-latency, high-availability, high-throughput ad-serving systems in a cloud environment, along with secure, scalable petabyte-scale data processing pipelines. Contribute to candidate retrieval and ranking using techniques from algorithmic search, machine learning, NLP, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and implement low-latency, highly available ad-serving systems in the cloud
• Build performant microservices and distributed data platforms to support high data volumes and QPS
• Engineer secure, scalable distributed data processing pipelines for petabyte-scale indexing and retrieval
• Apply algorithmic search, machine learning, NLP, and AI to improve candidate retrieval and ranking
• Collaborate with internal teams supporting indexing and search use cases
• Partner with product managers, operations, SREs, and engineers to define requirements and deliver end-to-end systems
• Deliver complete systems from design through production, independently and as a team
• Write clean, efficient, well-documented code and participate in code reviews
• Debug and resolve complex issues across large-scale distributed systems
• Stay current with advances in search, retrieval, distributed systems, ML/AI, and cloud infrastructure

Requirements

• Master’s degree in CS with 1 year of industry experience
• Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms and data structures)
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, Rust, C++, Scala, or similar OOP/functional language
• Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable microservices
• AWS experience (S3, EC2, and EKS/Kubernetes)
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work on complex problems end to end, alone or in a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication with cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Build privacy-first advertising technology that supports customers, creators, and publishers