About the Role
Apple Ads brings a customer-centric approach to advertising, helping people find what they need and advertisers grow their businesses. This role leads a team focused on architecting, creating, and delivering new capabilities to core search advertising products within a high-visibility mobile advertising space.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers building massive distributed services at scale with high quality.
- Work closely with peers and other engineering teams globally to build and support core advertising ecosystem capabilities.
- Partner with teams across Apple to deliver and support third-party integrations.
- Design, develop, and implement solutions, leveraging open source and building tools, frameworks, and components to improve and scale the platform.
- Architect, develop, release, and support mission-critical services.
- Design, build, maintain, and extend production ecosystems at scale.
Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on technology management experience.
- 8+ years of industry experience building scalable microservices and data-driven platforms.
- Prior experience in the advertising industry.
- Experience with creative and asset management tools and technologies, including image and video processing.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- Prior experience with modern programming languages (e.g., Java/Scala/C++).
- Experience building and scaling systems on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-native (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Strong technical leadership skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams.
Skills
- Scalable microservices
- Data-driven platforms
- Image processing
- Video processing
- Java
- Scala
- C++
- AWS
- Azure
- NoSQL datastores
- Cassandra
- Keyspaces
- Elasticsearch
- Data processing technologies
- Kafka
- Spark
- Flink
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- 8+ years industry experience
Education Level
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field
About the Company
- Apple Ads helps people find exactly what they’re looking for and helps advertisers grow their businesses.
- Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass.
- We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes.
