Sr. Software Engineer, Ad Platforms

Summary

Posted : Jul 24, 2024

Weekly Hours : 40

Role Number : 200556874

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.

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.
• 5+ years of industry experience building scalable micro services or data driven platforms
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Prior experience with Java / Scala / C++ or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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