Apple
Senior Software Engineer, Ads
$216K–$394K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- Extensive professional software development experience; no specific number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads architecture and engineering of privacy-preserving on-device ad delivery systems across Apple services, including daemons, frameworks, and SDKs.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, design and implement performant on-device components, and resolve complex system problems.
- Align teams and partners on the multi-quarter roadmap, identify systemic risks, and lead cross-team technical initiatives.
- Mentor senior engineers and represent the team in cross-organization design reviews.
What they ask for
- Expert understanding of OS fundamentals, cross-process communication, and concurrent programming.
- Extensive professional software development experience in a C-like language, including large-scale, reliable systems.
- Experience designing and operating high-performance client SDKs or libraries at scale and owning architecture for complex, long-lived codebases.
- Proven ability to set technical direction amid ambiguity, align stakeholders, mentor senior engineers, and communicate effectively. Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Ad tech; Apple-platform fundamentals including Swift/Obj-C; public APIs or external developer SDKs.
- CoreData, libdispatch, XPC, Swift concurrency, daemons, telemetry/observability, client-server networking, or multi-team technical strategy.
Pay
$216,200 and $394,000 USD base salary
Tools
C-like language, Swift/Obj-C, CoreData, libdispatch, XPC, Swift concurrency
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