Apple
Senior Software Engineer
$185K–$278K
New York City, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5 or more years of industry experience building scalable microservices or data-driven platforms; 8+ years of software engineering experience preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering discipline or equivalent; Master's degree preferred.
About the job
Build foundational, scalable ad systems and low-latency backend services for Apple Ads in a cloud environment.
What you'll do
- Build foundational components for the next generation of Apple Ads systems.
- Implement highly available, high-volume services and design them for performance and growth with minimal operational overhead.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Data, SRE, and other teams to build systems for advertising use cases.
What they ask for
- Strong computer science fundamentals and expertise in backend distributed systems and microservice design.
- Experience building scalable microservices or data-driven platforms, and tuning high-scale performance.
- Experience with object-oriented programming, public cloud technologies and APIs, and relational and non-relational datastores.
- Proficiency in data processing technologies and strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Nice to have
- Master's degree.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience; Java proficiency, cross-functional team leadership, or advertising industry experience.
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 (base salary range)
Tools
Java, C++, AWS, GCP, Kafka, Spark, Flink
AI focus
The team works across LLMs and Generative AI; this role's stated responsibilities do not specify particular AI work.
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