Apple
Staff Software Engineer, Apple Ads
$185K–$325K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10 or more years of industry experience building scalable microservices or data-driven platforms.
About the job
Build foundational backend services and data platforms for Apple Ads, including campaign-management APIs and scalable advertiser-facing systems.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with product management to define external campaign-management APIs and build shared capabilities such as authentication and authorization.
- Design and implement performant services and data pipelines, including secure distributed data-processing systems for campaign management.
- Build low-latency, highly available, high-volume advertiser-facing systems in a cloud environment.
What they ask for
- 10 or more years of industry experience building scalable microservices or data-driven platforms.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and prior experience with Java/Scala/C++ or equivalent.
- Expertise in relational and NoSQL datastores.
- Proficiency in data-processing technologies and experience crafting scalable microservices; familiarity with cloud paradigms.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in the advertising industry.
Pay
$184,700 to $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Scala, C++, Postgres, Oracle, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Kafka
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