Apple
Senior Reliability Engineer - Data, Apple Ads
Austin, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Infrastructure Engineering; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Designs and operates cloud-based distributed data infrastructure for Apple Ads, ensuring large datasets and supporting systems are reliable, secure, efficient, and observable.
What you'll do
- Build and manage large-scale distributed data systems on AWS.
- Develop tooling and automation to improve infrastructure reliability, cost efficiency, and observability.
- Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, improve production operations, and inform multi-cloud strategy.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience focused on building, scaling, and operating cloud-based distributed data systems.
- Expertise operating managed cloud infrastructure such as AWS and strong experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with large-scale data technologies such as Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka, or Iceberg.
- Experience using ML and GenAI to improve infrastructure and operational efficiency.
Nice to have
- Programming experience in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Python.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Helm and CRD.
Tools
AWS, EMR, EKS, MSK, Iceberg, Apache Spark, Flink, Kafka
AI focus
Use ML and GenAI capabilities to improve infrastructure and operational efficiency.
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