Apple
Senior Software Engineer, Apple Ads
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate on-device systems that fetch, rank, filter, and deliver ads across Apple services while enforcing policy and protecting user privacy.
What you'll do
- Design and implement on-device ad delivery solutions across the App Store, Apple News and Stocks, and Apple Maps.
- Build and debug performant, privacy-preserving components in daemons, frameworks, and SDKs.
- Shape the on-device ad delivery roadmap with engineering, product, and business partners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Deep understanding of OS fundamentals, including process and memory management, scheduling, and file systems.
- Professional software development in a C-like language; familiarity with cross-process communication.
- Advanced understanding of concurrent programming and experience building and operating high-performance client SDKs or libraries.
Nice to have
- Ad tech; Apple-platform fundamentals including Swift/Obj-C; public APIs or SDKs for external developers.
- CoreData/libdispatch/XPC/Swift concurrency/daemons; telemetry/observability; client-server networking.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
C-like language, Swift, Obj-C, CoreData, libdispatch, XPC, Swift concurrency
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